Homepage picture: Jayne and Eric Wagner and their Pembroke Welsh Corgi, Toddy The 200 miles of shoreline that separates Southwest Michigan and the Traverse City area is not a long distance by boat or...
Riesling originated in the Germany’s Rhine and Mosel valleys in the 1400’s. The grape is currently grown across the globe; South Africa has Cape Riesling, British Columbia has Okanagan Riesling and Bulgaria has Misket,...
In his always informative newsletter articles (yes, Fenn Valley still sends a paper newsletter), Doug Welsch of Fenn Valley Vineyards in Michigan, reports modest crop losses this year. He is also very optimistic about...
Spencer Stegnega remembers his childhood filled with animals–cows, chickens, geese, sheep, even a few horses his family boarded on their 20-acre property. ‘It was a full-fledged gentleman’s farm, but I, as the youngest of...
The 2010 Chateau Grand Traverse Whole Cluster Riesling was included in Food and Wine magazine’s top wines by editor Megan Krigbaum. Food and Wine has a circulation of 375,000 and is one of the...