On Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 6 PM at Nonna's at The Homestead, you can enjoy their annual Winter at the Vineyards Wine Dinner. The evening features a five course dinner prepared by Chef John Piombo, featuring Leelanau wines paired with each course for only $75 per person inclusive of tax and gratuity. Call them [...]
Category Archives: About Wine
About Wine: Tasting Room Etiquette
March 5, 2010 – 10:23 am
Wine Trail Traveler has a nice feature on Tasting Room Etiquette that begins:
Many small, boutique wineries are family-run. When visiting a wine tasting room consider yourself a guest. The owners and staff are proud of their facility and want everyone to enjoy their visit. Expectations in wine tasting rooms are different than at wine festivals [...]
Tasting Leelanau – Wine experts visit some LPVA wineries
December 4, 2009 – 10:17 am
In November, Master Sommelier Claudia Tyagi, retired engineer and avid wine aficionado David Rusnell, and Kim Adams and George Heritier of Gang of Pour visited the Leelanau Peninsula to taste at a number of our wineries. In the first post of a fantastic series, George begins:
Picture driving back roads through the hills of the Leelanau [...]
Francis Ford Coppola on Wine Touring
December 1, 2009 – 11:18 am
While renown wine writer George M. Taber's new book In Search of Bacchus: Wanderings in the Wonderful World of Wine Tourism doesn't touch on the Leelanau Peninsula (or any US location other than Napa) this review of the book explains why wine touring is such a special experience.
Taber's purpose in writing this book may be [...]
Vintage Michigan for the Holidays
November 18, 2009 – 4:01 pm
Tuck a Vintage Michigan club membership in someone’s stocking this holiday season and you’ll be on their “nice” list for next year!
At just $15 for a lifetime membership, you can’t beat the price for this unique gift for the Michigan wine lovers on your list. Vintage Michigan members receive discounts on their purchase of Michigan [...]
Selecting wines for Thanksgiving dinner
November 15, 2009 – 7:12 pm
In Five questions with wine expert Claudia Tyagi, the Detroit Free Press asks Master Sommelier* Claudia Tyagi about selecting Michigan wines to go with a Thanksgiving dinner. She recommends a few and says:
I always like Riesling with turkey, although with poultry Chardonnay would be beautiful. You have a lot of versatility and a lot of [...]
Celebrate the Holidays and Toast the New Year with a Michigan Sparkler!
November 10, 2008 – 3:27 pm
We received the following article from Promotion Specialist Karel Bush of the Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council and wanted to share it with visitors of our site. Enjoy!
Celebrate the Holidays and Toast the New Year with a Michigan Sparkler!
Whether you call it champagne, bubbly or just plain fizz, sparkling wine is just the thing [...]
Kind of a scary argument to drink locally
October 31, 2008 – 4:43 pm
In Heavy Metals Found in Wine, WXYZ Detroit reports:
Red and white wines from most European nations carry potentially dangerous doses of at least seven heavy metals, U.K. researchers find.
A single glass of even the most contaminated wine isn't poisonous. But drinking just one glass of wine a day — a common habit in Europe and [...]