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Northern Michigan Events: 'Taste the Passion' with Leelanau Wine - My North - January 2012 - Northern Michigan

Northern Michigan Events: Romance your February with Leelanau Peninsula wines. Mark your calendar!

Share the love of Leelanau (and Leelanau wine) at the "Taste the Passion" wine tour, held February 4 & 5, 2012. This special weekend celebrates wine, chocolate and love at the wineries of the Leelanau Peninsula Wine Trail in Northern Michigan.

Your ticket allows you to chart your own course, enjoying food and wine pairings at 17 wineries along with a optional winter and Valentine-themed activities at many of the wineries.

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Sounds like fun!

The Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association Highlights Ice Wine: A Labor of Love

'When you want something truly amazing, ice wine is the nectar of the gods."
~winemaker Alan Eaker of Longview Winery

The Leelanau Peninsula in Northern Michigan is an ideal location to grow and harvest grapes for ice wines. Located right on the 45th Parallel, Leelanau is on the same latitude as some of the best wine growing regions in the world including the Rhone Valley in France, the Piedemont in Italy, and the Williamette Valley in Oregon.

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Who loves ice wine?

We Asked, You Answered: Which LPVA Wine is on Your Holiday Wish List?

For our contest to win a pair of Toast the Season tickets, we asked our readers, "What Leelanau Peninsula wine would you put on your holiday wish list and why?" We got a record number of responses, spanning the entire peninsula. Here are just a few of some of the great answers submitted by our fans. Thanks to all who entered!

And the Winner of the Toast the Season Tix is...

Congratulations to JIM SHOULDICE, the winner of two tickets to Toast the Season,courtesy of the Leelanau Peninsula Vintner's Association! Jim's entry was picked randomly from everyone who entered our contest by answering the question, "What Leelanau Peninsula wine would you put on your holiday wish list and why?" Jim's response: "I would put Bel Lago Red on my holiday wish list because it pairs wonderfully with a prime rib Christmas dinner!"

To read a sampling of other responses from readers, click here. Read on for more information on Toast the Season and how to get your hands on your own tickets...

Win LPVA Toast the Season Tix!

 We may be basking in a heat wave right now, but come on, let's be realistic: This is Michigan. Like it or not, we'll soon be donning puffy jackets, carving turkeys, buying gifts for (insert your winter holiday of choice here), shoveling snow...gulp. For a very, very long time.

But never fear: We've got something to make that transition into the holiday season just a teensy bit easier. The Leelanau Peninsula Vintner's Association has kindly given us two tickets for to Toast the Season, the LPVA's signature pre-holiday celebration, to award to a lucky MBTB fan. Keep reading to find out how you can enter our Toast the Season Giveaway, which runs through 10 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, or purchase tickets on your own.

Drinking takes center stage in Traverse City - chicagotribune.com

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — This idyllic northern Michigan town is fast gaining a reputation as a dining destination, but we need something to wash down all that fine cooking. Fortunately, Traverse City and its surroundings are also a hot spot for fine drinking. From beer to cider to wine — white grapes especially thrive here — you can spend days exploring the landscape and never go thirsty. These places particularly caught our attention.

via www.chicagotribune.com

Some nice out-of-state press for the TC-area wineries!

And the Harvest Stompede Ticket Giveaway Winner Is...

A giant THANK YOU to everyone who entered our 2011 Harvest Stompede ticket giveaway; we loved hearing your "odes" to the Leelanau Peninsula wineries, the fond recollections of your past visits there, and your wish lists of which wineries you'd like to stop by in the future!

We drew randomly from contestants, and the winner of two tickets to the Sept. 10-11 festivities, courtesy of the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association, is … TOM TERRIFIC! (Tom, is that your real name? If so, color us jealous!) Congratulations!

Read on to see some of the love letters to Leelanau we received as entries in the contest...

LPVA Wineries Stomp Into Fall

The season wineries eagerly await year-round is upon us, and the Leelanau Peninsula Vintners Association will usher it in in fabulous, footloose fashion with its annual Harvest Stompede. The event features fantastic food and wine pairings at participating LPVA wineries — with unique dishes at every stop — and kicks off with a 7-mile run and 5K run/walk through the grapevines Sept. 10.

The LPVA has kindly supplied MBTB with two tickets to give away to the fall festivities, set for Sept. 10-11. Getting entered to win is easy; we'll tell you more about that in a moment!

Video Feature: Traverse City Wine & Art Festival

Take wine, art, food, music and fashion, combine them at a sweet venue (the amazing Village at Grand Traverse Commons, a redeveloped former asylum) and you've got the Traverse City Wine & Art Festival! The Aug. 20 event was seven hours of fun for all of the senses. Take a peek at what went on with our video feature.

Many thanks to the festival organizers for making our trip possible, to all the MBTB fans who introduced themselves, to the great guys at 94.3 and 92.5 FM for letting us tout MBTB on the radio, and to and all of the newcomers who stopped by our booth to see what MBTB is all about!

 

TC Wine & Art Festival Kicks It Up a Notch for 2011

The Traverse City Wine & Art Festival is returning to The Village at Grand Traverse Commons Aug. 20, bringing with it a smorgasbord for the eyes, ears and palate alike.