January 22, 2008 – 11:35 am
At noon begin your Black Star Experience at the Village of Grand Traverse Commons, leave your car and board our bus with a welcoming glass of our sparkling wine for a four hour tour of northern Michigan wine country. The first stop is at our brand new winery and tasting room on the Old [...]
December 5, 2007 – 9:06 am
Tasting Room and Winery staff hosted this year's Wine Club gathering in the Inn's Aquarius on the evening before the second weekend of the LPVA Toast the Season. With food prepared by Chefs Jennifer Blakeslee (also a Tasting Room staffer) and Eric Patterson (who also did the cooking demos in our Farmers Market during [...]
October 8, 2007 – 10:38 am
Opening day is getting closer for our Tasting Room at our Old Mission Peninsula Winery on McKinley Road. Here are a couple of sneak peeks at the new digs. We hope to see you there soon.
August 14, 2007 – 1:34 pm
Cari Noga has blogged about our new, and soon-to-be-opened tasting room concept, Tastes, on her Michigan Grapevine site.
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. [...]
December 28, 2006 – 9:27 am
They really like us! We received another mention in The Wall Street Journal on December 22nd in the weekly “Tastings” column by Dorothy Gaiter and John Brecher. They said, “Good wines are being made all over the U.S. now – we had a lovely Pinot Noir from Michigan a couple of weeks ago, 2004 [...]
October 9, 2006 – 9:29 am
If you're looking for "far and away the best cider out of more than a dozen I tried," heed Eric Felten's word in the Wall Street Journal on October 7th, and look no farther. In his "How's Your Drink" column he rated our Hard Apple Cider "a revelation. Like the first bite of a perfectly [...]
September 28, 2005 – 11:33 am
Tom Stevenson's The Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia, The Classic Reference to the Wines of the World has just been published. Black Star Farms received a V for value for money and 2 stars (Very exceptional wines. The local equivalent of a Bordeaux super-second.) We are the ONLY US winery outside of California and the Pacific [...]
