Tasting Room

Boasting about half the calories and lowest fat content of all other main edible nuts, chestnuts create a state of delectable opportunity.

Cordons were once canes, but they grow to be both older and thicker than canes. Spurs are little arms that grow from the cordons. From the spurs grow one-year-old wood, which produces the leaves and grapes.

Tapping into the Lake Huron region’s grape growing legacy, an entrepreneurial couple savors the fruits of diligent efforts.

Award-winning fruit wines are just the ticket to take from sunny afternoon porch-sits to starlit cottage soirees.

When wintertime starts to blossom in Leelanau County, Chris and Heather Sack reach for two things: their best woolies and a steaming cup of tea.

Strenuous certified training has made Annette May, beer manager of Dearborn’s Merchant’s Fine Wine, America’s first female Certified Cicerone — the beer world’s equivalent to best sommelier in the business.

If it’s true you that have to be fearless to fly a plane, Lorenzo Lizarralde has a lot of courage. A self-taught pilot since the age of 17, he’s navigated the world in all sorts of flying machines including DC-8 cargo jets to South America and Europe-bound Boeing 747s. So it’s really no surprise that Lizarralde, at age 47 in 2008, took a flying leap and started a winery in Jackson, Mich.

Jutting into Lake Superior from Marquette’s northern tip, Presque Isle paved the path for new craft brewers in town.

From picking asparagus to packaging fresh-cut zucchini, many aspects of farming were ingrained in Kellie Fox growing up in Walkerville.“My family has been farming...

At Brys Estate, family owners and members create easy recipes based on simple ingredients and the seasonality of Old Mission Peninsula to pair with wines crafted by award-winning vintner Coenraad Stassen.