Besides our snazzy new shelves , we have another newcomer to the Tasting Room - Sirius Raspberry. This addition to our line of Sirius Dessert Wines was made entirely from estate grown raspberries. As with our other port-style Sirius products, we made raspberry wine and stopped the fermentation with raspberry eau de vie. [...]
The shelves and coolers are filling up in our Farmers Market. We welcome Bunny Hop Ranch, The Redheads, Wallin Emu Ranch, Great Lakes Bees, and Leelanau Lavender Breezes. We're open daily through October, so stop by and say hello.
Retired US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor closed out the four-day National Governors Association conference with a speech focusing on judicial independence. She, among other attendees, had the chance to sample Michigan wines at receptions held at Brys Estate Vineyards and at Chateau Chantal yesterday evening.
During a stop at the Black Star Farms table [...]
Ted Cizma, Executive Chef at the Grand Traverse Resort in Acme, Michigan and a former Food & Wine Magazine Best New Chef in 2000, touted Michigan winemakers in today's Detroit News.
"Cizma called himself a "fairly serious wine enthusiast," traveling to wine regions around the world and already exploring Michigan.
"I've been to the local wineries [...]
It’s been a hectic ten days with the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City and our getting the new on site Farmers Market ready for customers, but we’ve survived both. Shelves were stocked, freezers filled, coolers chilled, coffee brewed, and we were open on Saturday morning. We are featuring local and out-state Michigan [...]
Today's New York Times has a feature on the "quiet vineyard revolution" that's taking place on the Leelanau Peninsula and across northern Michigan. One of the reasons:
“The return per acre can be substantially greater from grapes,” said Don Coe, a Michigan agricultural commissioner and co-owner of the nine-year-old Black Star Farms, which includes a winery [...]
The Leelanau Enterprise reports:
Black Star Farms was among wineries from seven Midwest states and Ontario to compete in the 12th annual Great Lakes Wine Competition, and the only one to earn two Double Gold awards….
Black Star Farms winemaker Lee Lutes was presented with 17 medals, including Double Gold honors for the 2004 Leorie Vineyard Merlot/Cabernet [...]
On Sunday afternoon-into-evening Don and Malu will be pouring wine at Cherries D’Vine, a second-year event at the National Cherry Festival in
Traverse City.
Hagerty
Center at the Great Lakes Campus of Northwest Michigan College couldn’t be a more beautiful venue. It sits at the foot of the east arm of Grand Traverse Bay and overlooks [...]
