by Tim Tebeau | Aug 8, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
The Petoskey Wine Region is the North’s next frontier in cool climate viticulture and Walloon Lake Winery co-owner Britta Dennis and winemaker Matt Killman are leading the charge with fresh, fruit-driven wines pressed from cold-hardy grapes like Marquette and La...
by Tim Tebeau | Jul 8, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
Sip rosé all day with Shady Lane Cellars Winemaker Kasey Wierzba. With a counterclockwise swirl, an inviting waft of strawberries and a sip of the mouthwatering acid verve that defines the wines of Northwest Michigan, we’re off, drinking pinot noir rosé and marching...
by Tim Tebeau | Mar 27, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
Northport native and award-winning barista Chuck Korson launched BLK MRKT, Traverse City’s hippest coffee house, in 2015. Chuck came up in the restaurant biz and completed the first stage of sommelier training before settling on coffee as his medium of...
by Kara Jarvis | Mar 19, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns, Work Here
Best friends and business partners Jon Carlson and Greg Lobdell met as kindergarteners at Old Mission Peninsula School. Together with fellow entrepreneur Chet Czaplicka, they have built a fleet of distinctive Michigan restaurants, including some pretty famous ones Up...
by Emily Tyra | Mar 5, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
A pioneer, a distiller, a farmer, a forager. Yeah, those day jobs sound pretty darn cool, but truth is, they are also dynamic, difficult and often stretch straight into the night. Botanicals handpicked in Antrim County, winter wheat harvested in East Jordan and a...
by Emily Hopcian | Mar 4, 2019 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
Just blocks from Lake Michigan, in Frankfort, something special is on tap at Stormcloud Brewing Company. Featured in the March 2019 issue of Traverse Magazine. Get your copy. I worked the first shift the day the pub opened—merely one of many employees fortunate to be...
by Deb Fellows | Dec 5, 2018 | Counties, Food & Drink, People
Bernie Rink, the founder of Boskydel Vineyards, died at the end of November. For those of you who don’t know, Bernie was truly the pioneer of the North’s wine industry. He was a genuinely smart man, a librarian by profession, who landed upon the notion that our...
by Tim Tebeau | Nov 7, 2018 | Counties, Food & Drink, People, Towns
Upon discovering a set of his great-grandfather’s distilling patents at the family farm, a whiskey wormhole opened up for Traverse City native, Chris Fredrickson that led to the founding of the Traverse City Whiskey Company in 2012 and their downtown distillery two...
by Ross Boissoneau | Oct 30, 2018 | Counties, Farm and Agriculture, Food & Drink, People, Towns
Two brothers with a love for agriculture came north to start their dream business, Two K Farms, a cidery and winery. Nostradamus doesn’t have anything on George and Max Koskela. The brothers foresaw the coming demand for cider seven years ago and began planning for...
