The hotel gave us a list of events going on around town during our stay so our first full day there we started exploring. First stop was a farmers market. It was kinda small, but actually had a good variety of produce, art and bakery items. Everything looked awesome, but we settled for just trying a whoopie pie with buttercream filling. Yum!
The area we were at in Michigan had a wine trail with many different types of wineries to visit. We planned our first visit in time for lunch. The Round Barn Winery was having a festival of sorts. I was expecting lots of people, craft booths, wine, music. Kinda like the Marigold or Pumpkin Festival from back home. Not so much. They had someone singing and were serving lunch. Not what I was expecting but still a good time. The also had a brewery, distillery, and winery all on site so we got to try wine, beer, and their vodka made from grapes. All awesome.
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| Ceiling inside the round barn |
We followed the trail for the next few days. I'm not sure how many wineries we went to, but we averaged about 4 or 5 a day I would say. We liked the estate wineries best, meaning the wineries that used all their own local grapes, versus making it with some Michigan grapes, some California grapes and shipping the blend in. Of course, each winery we stopped at we bought a few bottles of wine. Or half a case at each. Same thing. :) I was a little worried about getting all 22 bottles back to Texas but with the help of Mom and Jamie we packed it all in!
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| Driving from winery to winery |
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| Lots of grape vines. |
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| Wine in the making. The lids floated...not sure why now...something to do with the process I'm sure! |
We must have been too busy drinking our wine to take pictures of any. This is the only picture we seem to have that has wine in it, and the glass looks close to empty! Actually...I think this was the vodka. Oh well, it was really good vodka!
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