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Category Archives: MIDWEST
2 Lads Winery: Laddie Come Home
In setting the kibble-strewn stage, Lassie Come Home was a 1943 MGM tearjerker starring Roddy McDowell (as young Joe) and ‘Pal’ (who played Lassie) that ultimately launched the syrupy television series; in the film version, the Yorkshire Carraclough family, having … Continue reading
Posted in Michigan, MIDWEST, Old Mission Peninsula
Tagged 2 Lads Winery, Chris Baldyega, cornel oliver, Lassie Come Home, Old Mission wines
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Verterra Winery And My Personal Quest For Jim Harrison
Long ago and far away, when many of you whippersnappers were still drinking wine out of Evenflo baby bottles and I was scarcely old enough to steal vodka from my parents’ liquor cabinet, I headed up to the Leelanau Peninsula … Continue reading
Posted in Leelanau Peninsula, Michigan, MIDWEST
Tagged Bluebird Restaurant, Jim Hamelin, Jim Harrison, Leelanau, Leland, Shawn Walters, Skip Telgard, Verterra Winery
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Michigan Wine, 2012: State Of The Stating-The-Obvious Address
(April is Michigan Wine Month, as certified by Governor Rhymes-With-Spider, who’s been at the business end of more recall referendums than my Ford 150). Ever since Al Gore starting criss-crossing the country in his gas-gulping Jetstream 400 to lecture about … Continue reading
Black Lotus Brewery Just Keeps On Blooming
Within the well-worn wiles of wordplay, plenty of entities have found fame in combining hardcore words with gentle words—Led Zeppelin, Iron Butterfly, Steel Magnolias, Hitler Youth—so ‘Black Lotus’ is among impressive, if imposing company. No problem for Mark Harper, Michael … Continue reading
Bonga Is Bonkers, But That Doesn’t Degrade Cascade
Bonga is bonkers, for sure. I can say that because I consider myself a pretty serious runner—I do a minimum of five miles a day, at 5 AM, 365 days a year (right, I took yesterday off: God’s gift to … Continue reading
Posted in Michigan, MIDWEST
Tagged Cascade Winery, jalapeno wine, Roger Bonga, traminette
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Michigan vs. Ohio: No Contest, Or ‘Michigan By A Nose’?
‘Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor’s wine’ is a Commandment that is often transcribed incorrectly using ‘covet’ and ‘wife’, but it doesn’t matter, because Commandment-breaking is the journalistic cornerstone upon which this column has established preeminence in the American Academia … Continue reading
Posted in Michigan, MIDWEST, Ohio
Tagged Andrew Hall, Michigan vs. Ohio, Michigan wine, Ohio wine
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Michigan Viognier: Domaine Berrien Sounds The Clarion
If Paris In The Spring was a coin, the flip side would be Michigan in November. Post-Halloween—in boondocky counties like Berrien especially—everything deteriorates into the sort of dreary dystopia imagined by Huxley and Wells. Cornstalks turn colors not seen outside … Continue reading
Posted in Lake Michigan Shore, Michigan, MIDWEST, Viognier
Tagged Domaine Berrien, Katie Maurer, Lake Michigan Shore wines, viognier, Wally Maurer
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Here’s a Reason to Toast the Season: LPVA Wine Tour
‘Fess up: The expression ‘holiday tradition’ sort of gives me the willies. It conjures up images of some calculated and obligatory family nightmare to which you drag yourself reluctantly, year after year after year, until the one year nobody gets … Continue reading
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