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Jan. 14, 2023

The Traverse Wine Coast has been getting lots of love lately, and we’re no longer biased locals to say the hype is well deserved. The most recent jewel in the local winery crown comes from Wine & Spirits magazine, which gave five Leelanau Peninsula wines a score of 91, the highest scores for Michigan wines ever recorded by national or international wine critics. So, what should you be drinking? The 91-point scorers were Verterra Winery’s 2021 Dry Riesling and 2018 Dry Gewurztraminer; Brengman Brothers’ 2018 Dagudscht Blanc de Blanc sparkling; Mawby’s Grace; and Ciccone Vineyard and Winery’s 2020 Lee La Tage. Patrick Comiskey, a wine critic for Wine & Spirits, says our wine region is “making impressive strides in quality, worldliness, and energy, a provincial locus with global aspirations, freshly interpreting the wine world’s latest innovations and trends.” Bravo!