Friday, October 16, 2009

Grape news about Traverse City wine country


Traverse City among Top 10 wine destinations Detroit Free Press Freep.com: "Add another salute to northern Michigan’s growing reputation among the country’s top wine country destinations.

Editors at TripAdvisor, an international travel Web site based near Boston, recently ranked Traverse City eighth among the top 10 wine destinations in North America. The rating was reported by Thomson Reuters news service.

The list is topped by the renowned wine-making regions of Napa Valley and Sonoma, Calif. Traverse City is the only Midwest city that made a ranking that includes wine-producing areas in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, New York and Virginia."

Comment -- What can I say other than...I'll drink to that!

We've been in Napa Valley and Sonoma. It will be a long time before Traverse City can compete with the hundreds and hundreds of fancy California wineries out in those regions. On the other hand, the Michigan wineries are close by and their wine is a lot more affordable.

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