Category Archives: Beer, Wine & Beverages

Taste the Passion: Wine, Chocolate & Love

January 24, 2011 – 11:49 am

The annual Taste the Passion weekend wine tour celebrates wine, chocolate and love on Saturday, February 5 & Sunday, February 6, 2011 at the wineries of the Leelanau Peninsula wine trail!  The tour features special wine pours combined with tasty chocolate or savory pairings at Leelanau wine trail wineries between the hours of 11am and [...]

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Live at the Michigan Culinary Tourism Conference

January 10, 2011 – 8:26 am

Click here for a video from the conference! All day today the Absolute Michigan team is at Creating Michigan Culinary Destinations, Michigan’s first conference on Culinary Tourism. The conference was a hot ticket, and nearly 200 tourism industry stakeholders are getting ready to learn about Michigan’s new initiative to increase tourism. You can learn all [...]

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There’s a (Michigan) App for that: Michigan By the Bottle

December 15, 2010 – 7:49 am

We wrote this app to help people learn more about the Michigan wineries and to encourage them to visit the tasting rooms. ~Shannon Casey, Michigan By the Bottle It seems as if everywhere you turn, there’s a new smartphone app. We at Absolute Michigan will take our passion for discovering the very best of Michigan [...]

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Michigan Uncorked: Old Mission Peninsula: orchards, wineries, dining & brews

December 8, 2010 – 8:26 am

Lorri Hathaway and Sharon Kegerreis are writers who are passionate for Michigan and the authors of the award-winning From the Vine: Exploring Michigan Wineries. Learn all about Lorri & Sharon and their work at www.michiganvine.com. Speaking of wine & northwest Michigan, following Lorri & Sharon’s article we have a video about an upcoming Tweet & [...]

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Twitter Tasting with Black Star Farms

November 9, 2010 – 9:33 am

Our friends over at Michigan By the Bottle will be holding a Twitter Tasting next Tuesday, November 16 at 7:30 pm. In anticipation of the holidays, the tasting will feature two new sparkling wines from Black Star Farms: 2009 Be Dazzled and 2010 Bubbly Nouveau. Both wines are in their third vintage and the Be [...]

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Leelanau Peninsula’s Toast the Season Event Kicks Off the Holiday Season

October 13, 2010 – 7:38 am

GIVEAWAY ALERT! There’s two chances to win free tickets to this event this week. One is to tune into our friends at Michigan By the Bottle for their giveaway, and over at Leelanau.com they’ll be giving away a couple’s ticket to one person on their mailing list tomorrow. Michigan Uncorked is a regular column by [...]

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Traverse City Wine & Art Festival ~ August 21, 2010

August 11, 2010 – 10:36 am

In August, Absolute Michigan is featuring all kinds of Michigan wine stories and events – we’ll be giving away (or pointing to giveaways) from Michigan wine events and in general trying to everything we can to promote Michigan’s great wines and wine touring opportunities. Special Giveaway Alert! As a sponsor of the 2010 Traverse City [...]

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2010 Michigan Wine Competition Results

August 5, 2010 – 11:55 am

by the Michigan Wine & Grape Council Michigan Wine & Food Showcase by KcJacoby Twenty-five wine experts gathered August 3 in East Lansing for the 33rd annual Michigan Wine and Spirits Competition. Judges included five Master Sommeliers, and internationally known authors, winemakers and wine educators. Leading the group through the day was food and wine [...]

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Photo Report: Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival

August 2, 2010 – 8:59 am

photo report by Ken Jacoby Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival by KcJacoby The Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Beer Festival in late July presented the attendees with a multitude of obstacles. Air raid sirens, torrential downpours, and the overflowing Huron River on Friday night, the sweltering heat and spotty thunderstorms gave the attendees for Saturday [...]

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Summer Beer Festival – July 23 & 24 in Ypsilanti

July 12, 2010 – 10:11 am

Absolute Michigan will be sending Ken Jacoby to the Beer Festival – look for an update with his photos following the event! July is Michigan Craft Beer Month, and our brewing industry contributes over $24 million in wages with a total economic contribution of more than $133 million. In terms of overall number breweries, microbreweries [...]

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