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 Meet the next generation of Northern Michigan wineries including Michigan winemakers Cornel Oliver of 2 Lads Winery, Shawn Walters, One World Winery Consulting and Sam Simpson, Good Harbor Vineyards.
Northern Michigan is home to 27 Michigan wineries dotted mostly throughout Traverse City, Leelanau County and the Old Mission Peninsula. And the numbers are growing. Now, as a new generation of Northern Michigan winemakers settles in, we check in with three to see how their ideas are likely to shape the future of wine in Northern Michigan.
Continuing reading the article at MyNorth.com
 Nationally known illustrator, water colorist, oil and acrylic painter Stan Fellows will be painting in the vineyard and conducting clinics at Silver Leaf Vineyard July 27 th through August 7th. Watch Stan paint while visiting Silver Leaf. Clinics will be limited. Call Silver Leaf Vineyard at 271-3111 for details and class registration.
Stan Fellows has been an illustrator for thirty five years, painting for magazines, corporate clients, and children's books. Clients from the past two years include: Martha Stewart Living, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Audubon, National Geographic, Field & Stream, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, NYU, Notre Dame, United Airlines, Delta Airlines, Southwest Airlines, (what’s with all the airlines?) Kiplinger's, Arts & Antiques, Simon & Schuster, and for six years he has worked monthly for the Wall Street Journal's Friday wine column. In his native Minneapolis he taught watercolor painting and illustration at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and has also taught watercolor workshops in Iowa City, where he lives with his daughter.
 Tickets for the 2010 Traverse City Wine & Art Festival from 3-10 PM on Saturday, August 21, 2010 are on sale now. There are also some great lodging packages available – check them out!
Once again the festival takes place at The Village at Grand Traverse Commons (rain or shine) under the big tent. This year three area arts organizations: ArtCenter Traverse City, The Leelanau Community Cultural Center and Crystal Lake Art Center are showcasing artists and we'll have over 60 standout artists!
Our musical lineup is headlined by legendary Michigan blues musician Larry McCray along with folk favorites May Erlewine and Seth Bernard, blues phenom Greg Nagy and Song of the Lakes Trio with Sue Wood. Add original dance and other performance artists and you have one of the hottest musical tickets of the summer!
Head over to traversecitywinefestival.com for all the details!
 In Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Small Plate Dinner, MyNorth.com's Elizabeth Edwards writes:
Had a lovely evening in Leelanau Wine country last night. The occasion was the Leelanau vintners small plate dinner–a progressive dinner where each small plate was served at a different Leelanau winery and paired with a house wine. At Shady Lane we sat at the vineyard's edge (in the shadow of the vineyard's charming stone buildings) and ate Asian pork buns prepared by chefs from Red Ginger, paired with a 2007 Semi-Dry Riesling. Fun to meet Gill's Pier owners Kris and Ryan Sterkenburg there, taking a break from their work in their own vineyard.
From Shady Lane we moved on to the Sterkenburg's Gill's Pier where a private tasting room was decorated magnificently in glowing red candles and Japanese lanterns to celebrate the Asian spring rolls prepared by local caterer Kristin Karam of K2 Events and Edibles. Delicious and loved having Kristin tell us about them. The spring rolls were paired with Gill's Pier's award-winning 2008 Riesling. Wonderful!
Then the drive home to Glen Arbor: M-22 on a June evening. Need I say more? Okay, I will–passed a fox, a mother deer and her fawn who could barely make it across the road on its skinny, shaky legs, the sun sinking over Lake Leelanau, wild lilies in full bloom, blue flashes of Lake Michigan through the tree, the Wyeth-esque barns of Port Oneida …
Photo: Untitled by [DennisT]
If you ordered tickets to the Traverse City Wine and Art Festival, and are wondering why you haven't received them, we do not ship tickets. All tickets ordered online are to be picked up at will call on the day of the event.
Similarly, if you ordered tickets to the LPVA Small Plates, your name will be at each of the wineries that you are visiting. Most of the LPVA events are handled this way.
While tickets for all of our events are non-refundable we can transfer them into another name. Just notify us with the original purchasers name and the name that they will be picked up under. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
If you have any questions regarding ticketing for these events, please feel free to contact us at info@lpwines.com or 231.421.1172.
 The Leland Wine & Food Festival is a northern Michigan tradition held on the second Saturday in June (June 12, 2010). Noon til 6pm.
Come enjoy a day near the Leland Harbor and Leland's historic Fishtown tasting wines from local wineries and tasting the specialties from local restaurants and vendors.
Listen to live music in the park all day and enjoy the beautiful views of Lake Michigan and the Manitou Islands.
Admission is $12 and includes an etched wine glass and two tickets for wine tasting. Additional wine tasting tickets are available.
Food vendors accept cash only.
Participating Wineries and Food Vendors
Wineries
Bel Lago
Black Star Farms
Chateau Fontaine
Ciccone Vineyards
45 North
Gill's Pier Winery
Good Harbor Vineyards
Raftshol
Silver Leaf
Willow
Bowers Harbor
Chateau Chantal
Chateau Grand Traverse
Peninsula Winery
Circa
Chateau de Leelanau
Local Beer: Shorts Brewing
Food Vendors
Bluebird Restaurant
Leland Lodge
Corky’s (Vineyard Inn)
Plevas
Kejara’s Bridge
Village Inn
Drive Thru BBQ
The Cove
Martha’s Leelanau Table
Leelanau Cheese
Village Cheese Shanty
Stone House Bread
View Photos from the Leland Wine & Food Festival
For more information on Leelanau County's wineries, visit the Leelanau Peninsula Vintner's Association site at LPWines.com
Photo credit: On the Lawn by farlane
 Saturday, May 29 marks our 6th Anniversary, and, as is the case each year, we welcome you to join us for our annual Pig Roast. Live music, prizes, fantastic wines, and, of course, the succulent pork slow-roasted for hours prior. Bring your family and friends and enjoy the best kick-off to our year. Dig in at 11:00 a.m.!
We will only be printing up 130 of the very cool Anniversary Swine and Dine T-shirts. Be sure to snap yours up as this is a one-time deal from a very talented New York artist.
 Last year the LPVA debuted a new event called the Premium Pour, although it was successful and enjoyed by many, we have decided not to continue it this year and instead refashion it into an even better and more upscale event. Since this was planned to be held on the same weekend as the Leland Wine and Food Festival, we highly encourage you to attend that event. The Leland Wine and Food Festival, will be Saturday, June 12, and is hailed as one of Leelanau's favorite events. Not only do you get to taste most of the Leelanau Wineries, but also wineries from Traverse City and Old Mission. For a full list of wineries and food vendors, please visit lelandmi.com. Listen to live music in the park all day and enjoy the beautiful views of Lake Michigan and the Manitou Islands.
"LPVA Small Plates", held on Saturday, June 19, from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, will give wine patrons a chance to try tapas dish from local chefs paired with choice pours from our vintners. There will be three seating's at each participating winery, 6-7, 7-8 and 8-9. Tickets are $10 per seating and very limited for each time slot.
We apologize if you were looking forward to Premium Pour, but we assure you that both of these events will be worth your time.
We would like to thank all of Facebook fans and Twitter followers by giving them a special weekend. May 22 & 23, many of our wineries will offer complimentary tastings to those of you, who follow us on either Facebook or Twitter. How can you take advantage of this fun weekend? Join us on the LPVA Facebook page or follow us on Twitter for more details.
 Once again the LPVA gets KUDOS from a regional writer! Bill Ging of the Oakland Press says that, "we are lucky to have one of the best stay-cations in the country. It’s called the Leelanau Wine Trail." Bill and his wife visited eight of our 18 wineries. Bill writes about Tandem Cider:
Tandem Ciders is one of the most unique stops on the Leelanau wine trail. Tandem Ciders specializes in artisanal hard ciders and some very interesting small plates. Tandem Ciders is trying to establish the European tradition of hard cider in Leelanau County. They use Michigan apples in their ciders and work closely with neighboring growers that produce the fruit.
Read Part One and Part Two of Bill Ging's Who needs Napa when you've got Leelanau?
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