"We wanted to let you all know what a great ime we had last Saturday at the Black Star Experience. The food and wine pairings were excellent and we enjoyed meeting all of you and the other participants. We hope you will make this an annual event.  We look forward to our next visit to Black [...]
February 29, 2008 – 5:49 pm
Appellation America has an excellent feature and interview with operating partner Don Coe and winemaker Lee Lutes titled Black Star Farms: Wine Agritourism Grows Up by Eleanor & Ray Heald.
Eleanor & Ray Heald: Why did you decide to establish a winery in Michigan when you could have done it anywhere in the U.S.?
Don Coe: All [...]
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 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!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA8GdXknhEA
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.
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 [...]
August 28, 2007 – 1:49 pm
Black Star Farms is honored to be listed in the Inc. 5000 fasteset growing private companies in America.
August 24, 2007 – 2:26 pm
Veraison, the color change in ripening grapes, is occurring and the birds have discovered the sweetening, juicy fruit. The top of the vineyard, hybrids Foch and Regant, have been netted, and the remaining vines - mostly Pinot Noir - will be covered by the weekend.
Take that, you starlings!
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.
