Wine and Jazz brought to you by two Native Minnesotans:

Wine from Montgomery Orchard in Montgomery, MN to try our delectable selection of homemade wines and ciders. Our ciders and wines are made from apples grown right here in the farm orchard. Our cider house is open from Labor Day to Halloween on Saturdays and Sundays. Come taste our award winning plum wine.

Package includes 1 bottle of each:

Plum Crazy: It is a semi sweet fruit wine made from the unique blend of Toka, Superior, Alderman , and Mount Royal plums. This year's bottling also has a hint of wild Black Cherries. Best served chilled. ($20)

Cranapple Crisp: It is a balanced semi dry wine with great tartness. Serve chilled and dress it up for dinner guests with a couple of frozen cranberries added to the glass ($15)

This 2-CD Set Data Lords (2020) is by Maria Schneider, who now resides in New York City, but called Minnesota home as a child. Maria is a Pulitzer Prize Finalist, winner of two GRAMMY Awards, named Jazz Album of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association and NPR, and winner of France's prestigious Grand Prix de l'Académie du Jazz, has melded her advocacy and art: Nate Chinen of NPR writes: "Now it's finally here, in the form of a magnificent double album, Data Lords. . . it parses into thematic halves, "The Digital World" and, as an antidote, "The Natural World." On the whole and in the details, it amounts to the most daring work of Schneider's career, which sets the bar imposingly high. This is music of extravagant mastery, and it comes imbued with a spirit of risk."

Maria Schneider's music has been hailed by critics as "evocative, majestic, magical, heart-stoppingly gorgeous, imaginative, revelatory, riveting, daring, and beyond categorization." Blurring the lines between genres, her varied commissioners stretch from Jazz at Lincoln Center, to The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, to the American Dance Festival, and include collaboration with David Bowie. She is among a small few to receive GRAMMYS in multiple genres, having received the award in jazz and classical, as well as for her work with David Bowie.

Schneider's many honors also include: 14 GRAMMY-nominations, 7 GRAMMY Awards, numerous Jazz Journalists Association awards, DOWNBEAT and JAZZTIMES Critics and Readers Polls awards, an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, the University of Minnesota, ASCAP's esteemed Concert Music Award (2014), the nation's highest honor in jazz, "NEA Jazz Master" (2019) (NEA Jazz Master Speech found here), and election into the 2020 American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Listen to samples of songs on the album here.