3rd Annual November Wine Trail

This November we went on our 3rd annual November wine trail - a blast, as usual! We have been on a total of 5 wine trials, but 3 years ago we started the tradition of going in November to the Michigan wineries. We LOVE Michigan wineries, and really we just love Michigan in general (at least Jack and I do...we've actually both grown up with different, special connections and reasons to love Michigan, so the wine trailing memories we're making make it even more special!) Our 1st year we stayed mainly on the west side of Michigan by the lake, last year we went all the way up to the peninsula (which was my favorite....so beautiful, and soo many great wineries!), and this year we stayed closer to where we were our 1st year. The good thing about this year was we really knew a lot of the wineries and knew which ones we "needed" to return to, as well as which ones we'd never been to that we wanted to add in. We also added in a few breweries this year, which we'd never really done before and it was equally as great! Another addition to this year's trail was the addition of about 10 more people...which brought us to just about 20 people. Yes, close your mouth, I know your jaw dropped like mine when I found this out for the first time! While there were so many people, which brought it's ups & downs, it was an overall great time!!! I do have to boast, but by the last few wineries we did not have the amount of bodies we started with...not everyone can handle 10+ wineries in 2 days like us "Pro's" can!! (Which is actually less than we've done in the past 2 years)

Here's a little re-cap of the fun times we had!

And in case you're interested in some great wineries that we went to in 2011:

Day 1
Tabor Hill
Round Barn
White Pine Winery / Lunch
McIntosh Orchard
Fenn Valley
Sagatuck Brewing
Cascade Winery / Brewery
Dinner at www.twentyfivegr.com/

Day 2
Cody Kresta
Warner
St. Julian
Karma Vista
Contessa or The Livery Brewing Co.
Founders Wine Celler
Greenbush Brewing