Saturday, July 05, 2008
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- 2007 Layer Cake Malbec Mendoza, Argentina , $16
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- 2007 Forty-Five North Pinot Noir Leelanau County, $22
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- Head north this summer to Ontario - 10:13 AM
- Detroit Marks Year of the Car - 02:00 PM
- CYBERTRIPS: Detroit marks Year of the Car - 01:34 PM
- Web tips for 4th of July travel - 03:53 PM
- Family prefers Great Lakes beaches to the ocean - 02:14 PM
- Explore Pennsylvania Dutch country - 01:21 PM
- Down in the valley along New York's Hudson River - 02:25 PM
- Lake Erie offers island getaways - 02:34 PM
- Grown-ups' revenge: Explaining Hard Rock Park - 11:08 AM
Sandra Silfven
A retailer's take on wine sales, and a firecracker weekend at Round Barn
With the mood around Metro Detroit more sober than full of good cheer, are people still buying wine? - 07/03/2008
Sandra Silfven
Charity draws food, wine celebs
Get set for an extravaganza of dinners and wine tastings spanning August and September with top-name vintners, chefs and experts in related fields. - 07/03/2008
Sandra Silfven
Michigan wineries weather fuel prices, cold snap
Tourism, the weather and the legislature all affect the drinks on Michigan tables this year. - 06/26/2008
Sandra Silfven
Thrifty shop for wine geeks
Everyday Wines in Ann Arbor's Kerrytown Shops is the modest name for a small store with down-to-earth sales principles. But the wines are not-so-everyday. They're pretty eclectic. - 06/26/2008
Sandra Silfven
New Sunrise Side Wine & Hops Trail lures visitors to Alpena area
What do wine grapes, fruit wines, craft brews, elk herds and golf have in common? They're all available, often with views of Lake Huron, along the new Sunrise Side Wine & Hops Trail. - 06/19/2008
Sandra Silfven
Wine and dine on the patio
The sun and view are free. The gourmet food and top-flight wines will cost you 50 bucks. - 06/19/2008
Sandra Silfven
Dr. Burklin-Wolf: A famous German Riesling producer embraces the old and the new
The noted Riesling producer is the first non-French winery in Germany to be certified biodynamic by Biodyvin in France, and one aspect of this old but "new" form of agriculture is to make a natural spray for the soil from horn manure. - 06/12/2008
Sandra Silfven
Cloverleaf moves to R.O.
If you've been out roaming Main Street in Royal Oak recently, you've probably spotted the new wine shop in the hundred-year-old brick building that used to be an electrical substation to power the streetcars on Woodward. - 06/12/2008
Sandra Silfven
International Eastern Wine Competition offers the inside track on wine finds
Everybody loves insider information, and if you peruse the results of large, international wine competitions to find out what the judges in their white lab coats liked best, you always feel kind of smug that you know more than the next guy. - 06/05/2008
Sandra Silfven
Wineries say bye-bye to glass bottles
Just in time for outdoor summer events and skyrocketing gas prices, giant wineries are doing their part to lighten their transportation costs and be nice to the planet. - 06/05/2008
Sandra Silfven
3 tales from the front lines: Making wine in Michigan and Indiana
Making wine outside the West Coast is a struggle not only to survive the variables of nature but to gain the confidence and respect of consumers, who -- let's face it -- are programmed to buy California. Here are three vignettes of winemakers east of the Rockies pursuing quality and recognition. - 05/29/2008
Sandra Silfven
From Leland to Weko Beach, wineries stage outdoor tastings
Go north, go west or drive to Jackson for three of the state's most popular outdoor wine festivals -- all in June and smack-dab in the middle of wine country. - 05/29/2008
Madeline Triffon: Wine
Neil Ellis Pinotage defines modern South African winemaking
Don't miss: Neil Ellis Pinotage 2006 Stellenbosch, South Africa, $20 - 05/29/2008
Sandra Silfven
Sips, sun and sandals
Mark your calendar: Merchant's Fine Wine in Dearborn has morphed its popular annual Zinfandel tasting, always slated for May, into its Spring Wine Tasting with a new date this year. - 05/22/2008
Robert Mondavi: 1913-2008
California wine pioneer dies
Robert Mondavi, namesake and founder of a northern California winery that helped establish the Napa Valley as a wine region ranking with France and Italy, has died. He was 94. - 05/17/2008
