Traverse City Wine Food Predictions
From Traverse City based writer Andy MacFarlane and eatdrinkTC.com come some interesting predictions for ’14 including: 1. The 60 person elevated deck at Brys Estate will open in ’14, as reported this summer in...
Category: Michigan
LPVA Offers Scholarships for 2014
The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association (LPVA) awards annual scholarships to students interested in pursuing a certificate or associate’s degree in viticulture and/or enology via the Viticulture Enology Science and Technology Alliance (VESTA) The number...
Bel Lago Boasts 100 Grape Varieties
This article is sponsored by MI Wine Barrel, makers of durable and economic stainless steel wine barrels Bel Lago Winery was founded in 1987 by chief winemaker Charles Edson together with his wife Amy Iezzoni, and...
How Climate Change is Affecting Michigan Farming
From Gannett’s The Times Herald comes a well researched story on how changes in climate are affecting farmers. Variability of temperatures and precipitation is increasing and the results are mixed for fruit growers....
City Winery Chicago Making Michigan Riesling
According to winemaker Robert Kowal, City Winery in Chicago will be bottling a Riesling made exclusively from Michigan grapes during spring of 2014. The juice for the wine came from Left Foot Charlie in...
Michigan Wine Conference 2014 Preview
The Michigan Grape & Wine Conference is moving to Traverse City this year for three days and two nights at the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme, which is just north of Traverse City. According...
Michigan State Announces Program For Starting a Vineyard
A wine grape establishment conference will be held by Michigan State University Extension on January 21-22, 2014. Preregistration is required by January 10. The detailed agenda and registration information may be found at http://events.anr.msu.edu/winegrape14/. This...
Forty Five North Testing Ozonated Water
Michigan NPR recently ran a story about experiments that Forty Five North Winery in the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan is doing with ozonated water. See: Northern Michigan Vineyard Experiments With New Kind of Chemical...
Tom Wark: Michigan; We Hate You Wine Lovers
The headline for this story comes from Tom Wark’s Fermentation Wine Blog, which is one of nation’s largest wine blogs. (Popular wine blogs like incendiary headlines.) Tom’s story about corkage fees in Michigan is...
Bononbo Winery Set to Open Mid-2014
The Traverse City Ticker reports that Bonobo Winery – a joint venture of Todd and Carter Oosterhouse- will be opening late spring/early summer 2104. See related story: Oosterhouse Traverse City Winery to Called Bonobo