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, [...]
Category Archives: Leelanau
Touring Michigan's Wine Country with Detroit Moxie
August 25, 2010 – 12:03 pm
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
Traverse City Wine & Art Festival Updates!
June 28, 2010 – 1:16 pm
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 [...]
MyNorth.com on the Small Plate Dinner
June 21, 2010 – 9:52 am
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 [...]
Leland Wine & Food Festival ~ June 12, 2010
June 4, 2010 – 4:57 pm
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 [...]
PART ONE: Who needs Napa when you've got Leelanau?
May 18, 2010 – 3:17 pm
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 [...]
Wake Up to Leelanau Wine!
May 12, 2010 – 9:29 pm
Here's a photo from Cris's great 2010 Spring Sip & Savor slideshow!
Growing Grapes in the Home Garden Workshop
May 6, 2010 – 9:36 am
On Wednesday, May 12th from 6:30 AM-8:30 PM, MSUE-Leelanau and Grand Traverse offices will co-host a workshop titled Growing Grapes in the Home Garden, at the MSU Northwest Horticultural Research Station, located at 6686 S. Center Highway (approx. 7 Mi. S. of Suttons Bay).
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