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Considered one of the rarest wines of the world, true ice wines are made from perfect grapes left on the vine long after traditional harvest. The weather has to cooperate, too, with a slowly cooling late fall. A three - four day hard freeze with temperatures in the teens prepares the grapes for harvest. These grapes were picked in a blinding December snow storm by 12 hardy souls. The grapes were then crushed outdoors - they cannot be allowed thaw for true ice wine. This process can take days of pressure, extracting about one drop of concentrated juice from each grape.

This Chardonnay is the most full-bodied white wine we produce. It presents a flavor-packed sensation on the palate. Because the flavors of Chardonnay are so compatible with oak, this wine has been fully fermented and aged in new French and American oak barrels.

The 2004 growing season was long and pleasant with plenty of sunshine. The dry warm fall with cool evenings did much to ripen the fruit slowly and bring out the beauty and depth of the Riesling variety.

This is one of the most versatile grapes grown and is considered one of the great varieties of the world. In this style we stop the fermentation for freshness and add back the sweet reserve for balancing the fruit palate.

Pinot Gris from our 7 Hills Vineyard on the Old Mission Peninsula appelation is crisp and refreshing with melon fruit and delicate floral notes. This is a superb grape for the expression of "terroir", displayiing mild herbal and mineral accents on the palate. This is a tremendous food wine.

The fruit for this wine is a blend of different clones from three different vineyards, contributing significantly to its refined complexities.

This is a classic style Riesling that reflects the ripe vintage and the winemaker's preference for this fruit. This outstanding vintage has yielded a characteristically beautiful white wine with intense fruit and floral.

This wine is a direct result of a good growing season. To help expose the terroir component of Northwest Michigan no oak has been used in the production of this wine. The flinty and steely aromas make the wine reminiscent of a crisp Chablis or Macon

One of Michigan's most abundant fruits, we produce it as a ripe, fruity semi-dry blush table wine. Produced from a combination of cherry varieties that are both estate grown and harvested from neighboring orchards, this wine is enjoyable as an aperitif, a luncheon wine or with fresh fruits of the season.

This sparkling cider is made from a blend of 8 different cider apples.

This beautiful red wine represents the awesome quality dynamic that this vineyard possesses. Considered one of the great reds of Michigan, this wine, through extra barrel and bottle maturation, maintains the elegance and beauty that is the signature of this vineyard. Deep bramble fruit with refined spice notes could lead one to think (dare we suggest?) Bordeaux! A mere 245 cases produced.

These white Riesling grapes are from the eight year old Leorie Vineyard on the Old Mission Peninsula. It is one of the best vineyards in the area and has been a pet project of the winemaker over the past five years. This floral and flinty Riesling has been crafted in an off dry Alsatian style.

80 Proof (Pear Brandy) In Spring, a bottle is tied over a budding branch in the pear orchard with hopes that a Bartlett pear will grow to maturity inside the bottle. The pear is harvested, cleaned and washed, and the bottle is then filled with pear brandy from the same orchard, hand labeled and numbered in this special limited presentation. This "pear in the bottle" is a true collector's item and can be prominently displayed. The pear becomes calcified over time, and is not consumed. When the bottle is emptied, simply purchase a bottle of Spirit of Pear and refill the "pear in the bottle" for many years of enjoyment

Fresh, aromatic ripe pear aromas mingle with a delicate spice on the palate. This fruit wine has balanced residual sweetness. The delicious taste of Northern Michigan.

This red is a vibrant blend of four different varieties with Cabernet Franc as the main component. Merlot and the French-American varieties-Foch and Chambourcin-have minority roles in the blend, giving this wine a pleasant balance between ripe red fruit and earthy rusticity. This is a perfect table red for anything off the grill, for hearty pastas or for poultry.

This Red House White is composed of 45% Chardonnay, 25% Vignole, 20% Riesling and 10% Pinot Gris grapes gathered from several different vineyard sites on the Old Mission and Leelanau Peninsulas. It is a product of one of the best growing seasons in northern Michigan - the 1999 vintage.

This beautifully fragrant, port-style dessert wine is produced from estate grown black sweet cherries, fortified with our own cherry brandy, and sweetened with tart cherry juice. It is then barrel aged for nine months in American oak.

Known as "ratafia" in France, this lightly sweet cordial is the essence of pure Chardonnay fruit: juice that is pressed off this noble grape at the peak of ripeness fortified with brandy distilled from the same juice.

Decadent ripe fruit combines with woodsy spice in this wine produced from 100% Bartlett pears. Because we source these pears from a neighboring farm, we are able to capture and bottle the opulent flavors of the perfectly ripened fruit. This wine is made in the port-style and fortified with our own barrel-aged pear brandy.

This blanc de blanc sparkler is a blend of Chardonnay Pinot Gris, Riesling and Vignoles from Northwest Michigan's Leelanau Peninsula. Made in a brut style it is excellent as an aperitif but versatile enough to be paired with a multitude of foods. "Sparkling wine is the wine of choice for all of life's celebrations"!

80 Proof (Apple Brandy) Apple brandy was the first spirit produced in America during the Revolution. Following in the Colonial tradition, our small-batch, hand-crafted apple brandy is distilled from a true cider blend of several different apple varieties including Jonagold, Winesap, Rhode Island Greening, Spy, McIntosh, and Jonathan. It is then barrel-aged, using both French and American oak, for four years. At the precise time the distiller feels is optimum to showcase the fruit from Leelanau County's bounty, the brandy is bottled - often a single barrel at a time.

80 Proof (Apricot Brandy) Apricot Brandy is common to Hungary. The fully ripe fruit is fermented on the pits and then distilled rapidly to retain flavor and aroma. The distillate is aged in glass.

80 Proof (Cherry Brandy) Cherry brandy is widely consumed throughout Europe, especially in Germany and Switzerland. It delivers subtle cherry flavors and hearty alcohol for straight consumption or use as a flavoring ingredient.

80 Proof (Pear Brandy) Probably the best known eau de vie in France commonly produced in Alsace. Bartlett pears from the Keswick Flats orchard are picked while still green and allowed to ripen from within at the distillery. The ripe fruit is then pressed and the pulp fermented prior to distillation.

Our plum eau de vie is distilled from Damson plums.

Our Red Grape Grappa is made from the fresh must of Pinot Noir, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot grapes.

Our White Grape Grappa is made from the fresh must of Riesling, Gewurtztraminer, and Vignole grapes.