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Your Winter Wine and Food Pairing Guide

Your Winter Wine and Food Pairing Guide

Winter means bundling up to play in the snow and then sitting by a fire sipping a glass of great wine staring out at a snowy landscape. Finding the perfect winter wine to elevate your cold evening can make it an even more enchanting experience. But when pairing wine with the perfect dish, it can be the “cherry on top” for your winter night.  To help you create this experience, we’ve put together a list of the best wines to drink in winter along with several food pairings. What’s great about winter wines is they go so well with the...

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Four wines on a board labelled with their respective names. Situated in front of a snowy field.

Upcoming Wine Workshop Events!

Welcome to 2022! While our holiday festivities have come and gone, the excitement hasn’t ended. We have two new wine workshops in store for you next February—just in time for your Superbowl and Valentine’s Day plans. Wine Workshop: Potato Chips Have you ever realized that wine and potato chips go perfectly together? No really, they do! In our wine workshop on Sunday, February 6th, we will be teaching you how to pair five Great Lakes Potato Chip Co. flavors with five of our estate-grown wines. In the meantime, here are 4 quick and easy Superbowl snacks that you can pair...

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Shot of the sun setting over northern Michigan.

The Perfect #NOMI Winter Wine Weekend

We know after the holiday season, many of us feel those January blues. We need a change of pace or scenery to give us something to look forward to. Well, lucky for you, we’ve designed the perfect antidote with a trip to beautiful northern Michigan wine country! The itinerary includes some of our Rove Recs with places you must try and fun things to do up here during a winter wine weekend. Truthfully though, there are SO MANY choices that we could probably write a blog series about all there is to see, taste, and sip here in beautiful Traverse...

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A group of four friends in cozy fall clothing with wine glasses in hand.

What is a Nice Bottle of Wine for a Gift? 11 Tips to Guide Your Holiday Wine Purchases

What is a nice bottle of wine for a gift? That depends largely on the person you’re buying for! Our guide leaves you with tasting notes and food pairings to help you buy the perfect wine for your loved one or work friend. We constantly get asked questions about what wine to buy as a gift for someone. As the holidays are quickly approaching, we wanted to give you a guide for what wines to purchase for anyone, whether they are family, your best friend, or your work colleague. Whether you are bringing wine to turkey day or as a...

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