January 15, 2008 – 1:13 pm
Click below to watch a new video tour of Black Star Farms!
December 21, 2007 – 3:16 pm
Click on the video below to hear Black Star Farms winemaker Lee Lutes talk about this year's ice wine harvest!
December 5, 2007 – 8:14 am
MSU's Project Green has granted us funds to build a hoop house. While only the hoops were visible through most of the fall, Halloween marked the application of the vinyl. With help from other local grant recipients, our farm, winery and tasting room staff helped to - literally - hold down the [...]
October 8, 2007 – 10:16 am
Around here we call Nic our Pumpkin King. For years he's been growing giant pumpkins, carefully saving the seeds for planting the next spring, and hoping for bigger and better squash each year. He's a bit disappointed with this year's crop due to the dry summer, but we think the results speak for themselves. [...]
October 2, 2007 – 4:34 pm
Matt and Keegan Myers figured that both tourists and locals must love traveling M-22 that circles the Leelanau Peninsula as much as they do, so they came out with M-22 logo wear last year. When these items took off in the market, Matt and Keegan came to us at Black Star Farms with the idea [...]
Leelanau Cheese's aged raclette beat out over 1.200 entries to take "Best in Show" at the 24th annual American Cheese Society competition in Burlington, VT.
With a 27% increase in entries this year and over 200 cheesemakers competing, the Hoyt's faced stiff competition, but if you've ever tasted their aged raclette, you know that the judges [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
