Becks Davis of Detroit Moxie has a great feature on Touring Michigan's Wine Country that features a number of our wineries and last weekend's Traverse City Wine & Art Festival.
As much as I love Detroit, sometimes you need to get away. You know, go on a holiday. Or, as we say here in Michigan, [...]
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Touring Michigan's Wine Country with Detroit Moxie
August 25, 2010 – 12:03 pm
Guest Post: TC Wine & Art Festival returns for seconds
August 19, 2010 – 10:31 am
Cortney Casey of Michigan by the Bottle has a great feature that we are reprinting with her permission – definitely make Michigan by the Bottle one of your favorites online and on Facebook!
Artists of both the palate and palette persuasion will come together Aug. 21 for the second annual Traverse City Wine & [...]
May Erlewine & Seth Bernard at the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival!
August 17, 2010 – 11:29 am
May Erlewine, Seth Bernard & Mike Shimmin are featured at the 2010 Traverse City Wine & Art Festival this Saturday (Aug 21). Here's May having a little fun at her CD Release party with a Michael Jackson cover and also her own song Shine On!
Café Society Gala Preview Opening
August 10, 2010 – 10:53 am
The wineries of the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival poured for the Gala Preview Opening for Café Society: coffee house portraits. This premier event generated 70% of the funds needed for an annual scholarship of $1,000 that will be awarded to a Northern Michigan coffee house worker in perpetuity.
The opening was a night of [...]
Not to be missed upcoming events at Gill's Pier
August 9, 2010 – 3:26 pm
Join us for our annual New Release Party on September 4, 2010
Join us Saturday, September 4 for our annual New Release Party! Be among the first to try the newly-released 2008 Royce, a recent Silver Medalist at the International Eastern Wine Competition. This wine is a classic blend of lightly oaked Chardonnay and Seyval with [...]
Wine columnist Michael Brenton looks back on the 2010 Leland Wine Festival
August 9, 2010 – 3:21 pm
Michigan wines impress at Leland festival
The agro-tourism season near Grand Traverse Bay once again got a jump start when the village of Leland hosted its annual Wine and Food Festival.
I was curious to see if there would be many wines from the challenging 2009 vintage, and how they would show, but most of the wines [...]
Leelanau posts another strong showing at Michigan Wine Competition
August 4, 2010 – 10:43 am
Joel Goldberg at michwine.com has a great Michigan Wine Competition Live Blog where he shares some of the behind the scenes work that judges did. Leelanau wineries continued their strong performance at the competition, taking 5 of the 9 major medals!
Sparkling: Black Star Farms Arcturos
Dry Whte: 2009 Black Star Farms Pinot Gris
Rose: 2009 45 North [...]
Journalist takes an interest in Good Harbor's Cherry Wine in an ever evolving Michigan Wine Industry
August 2, 2010 – 4:44 pm
Cherries are to Traverse City what slot machines are to Las Vegas—lifeblood. But when a community’s lifeblood starts sapping its life force, it’s time for a rethink. According to Good Harbor winemaker Sam Simpson, the cherry industry has had a rough decade. Battered by weather woes and oppressive GAP certification requirements, the [...]
MyNorth.com: Meet the Next Generation of Northern Michigan Winemakers
July 27, 2010 – 4:14 pm
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, [...]
Silver Leaf offers classes with Stan Fellows
July 14, 2010 – 10:54 am
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 [...]