On the Road with the Grape Guy
Report from - Michigan Winery Tour (Traverse City Area) Day 3 ... June 15, 2009
15 Sep 2009- Details
- Category: On the Road with the Grape Guy
Day three saw us finish off the Leelanau Peninsula with a visit to Cherry Republic, a cherry winery and so much more. Here you’ll find everything cherry, from peanut butter infused with cherry to bbq sauce, wine, pop and hard cider. Traverse City is the heartland of cherries so this kind of village devoted to the red fruit makes perfect sense. As it turns out it was so easy to find though we made it twice as difficult. We pulled out from our local restaurant and started down the highway, the GPS dinged and told us to turn around and go back, we did, flew by the restaurant we just ate at and the GPS dinged again, we repeated out u-turn … as it turned out it was a mere half a block down the road from our restaurant, had we known we could have walked and saved ourselves the hassle.
At noon we decided to forego lunch for a special treat we had read about ... (Read the full story and see the pictures)
