@Latitudes_Chef Max Zamarripa Celebrates 10 Years of Fine Food & Wine at Latitudes & Steelheads, Howard City @PureMichigan, 12-20 & 12-21-2013. Specials.

Chef Max Zamarripa of Latitudes & Steelheads in downtown Howard City, Michigan writes to invite Wine Sauvage readers to celebrate Ten Years of business in downtown Howard City. About a half-hour north of Grand Rapids on US-131, Latitudes is the opposite of hurried city attitudes. Steelheads Lounge is the fishing bar your grandfather talked about, with a touch of the equestrian lifestyle too, and a dash of bluegrass and country music for good measure.

Fun to note that Max graduated from Grand Valley State University with a degree in Nursing. Eat up. This food has received extra-special attention.
  
Please join us this Friday & Saturday to celebrate 10 wonderful years with us!

• GREAT FOOD & DRINKS
  
• PRIME RIB
  
• FRESH SEAFOOD
  
• SPECIALTY STEAKS
  
• WINE SPECIALS
  

THANK YOU TO ALL OUR LOYAL CUSTOMERS! WE COULD NOT HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT YOU!

Latitudes Roadhouse | 101 E. Edgarton | Howard City | MI | 49329

News Flash: Dark Horse Tap Takeover & Free Howler Party at Hennessy's Will Have ELF Winter Warmer Ale Available, Muskegon, @PureMichigan

Hennessy's Pub of Muskegon Celebrates New Howler License with Free Howlers Thursday Only & Dark Horse Brewing Company Tap Takeover, 12-19, 7 PM

Message has arrived from our friends at Hennessy's O'Mazing Irish Pub.

We are very excited to announce the arrival of our Hennessy's Howlers!

We will be having a release party this upcoming Thursday evening during the Dark Horse Brewing Company Tap Takeover.

Now you can take all of your favorite beers home with you! We can't wait to see you there! 

Reach Out to @UnrulyBrewing to Experience Community Brewing, with the Brewery Open to all Muskegon Area Brewmasters & Brewmistresses.

My friends at Rapid Growth in Grand Rapids have the story. 

The Muskegon Ottawa Brewers are a Tight Mob, and They Have a Connection to the Unruly Underground.

Getaway to Saugatuck's Sherwood Forest Bed & Breakfast and Brew Up Homebrew at Saugatuck Brewing Company

Bed and Breakfast and Brewery
Looking for a weekend getaway involving brewing your own batch of beer? 

Sherwood Forest Bed & Breakfast is offering a unique weekend package that includes a two-night stay plus access to Saugatuck Brewing Company's brew-on-site facilities. 

SBC will provide the recipes, from light to dark, over 70 different recipes are available. Summer Wheat to Red Ales to rich Porters. 

They'll also provide the ingredients and professional brewing equipment as well as the expertise to take you through the brewing process. You'll brew at least 11 gallons of beer (sixty 22oz. bottles). 

If 11 gallons of beer is more than you need, bring a friend or two and split the batch. 

It takes 3-4 hours to brew your batch, and you return in two weeks to bottle and sample your beer, which takes about 2 hours or you can have them bottle it and pick it up (an extra $20). 

You can even design your own labels using Microsoft Word (for an extra $27). 

The cost of Bed and Breakfast and Brewery runs from $586 to $672 depending on the time of year and the room. 

For more information or to book this package call Keith or Sue at 800-838-1246.
 
Keith S. Charak
938 Center Street
Douglas, Michigan 49406
Email: sf@sherwoodforestbandb.com
800-838-1246

Celebrate Unsilent Night at Left Foot Charlie, Grand Traverse Village, composition by Phil Kline. Bring a Boom Box. 12-20 6 PM @PureMichigan

Time to dust off those boom boxes, laptops, Mp3 players, iPhone's and iPad....its time once again for Unsilent Night at LFC!

WHAT IS UNSILENT NIGHT?
An original composition by Phil Kline, written specifically to be heard outdoors in December. It takes the form of a street promenade.

Each Participant gets one of four tracks of music in the form of a CD or MP3. Participants carry boom boxes, or anything that amplifies music and simultaneously start playing the music. They walk a carefully chosen path (lead by Bryan Ulbrich, Winery Sherpa) creating a unique mobile sound sculpture which is different from every listeners perspective.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Each person is asked to bring their own boom box, laptop or other portable musical device to carry along the walk through the Grand Traverse Village Commons. Reservations are required. Upon reserving your spot you will receive the link information for downloading to your mp3 or a CD will be held on reserve for you at Left Foot Charley to be picked up at the event.

If you don't have a portable music player, you are still more than welcome to participate in the walk and hear the music. However, the more boom boxes there are, the better the piece sounds and the better the experience for all involved 


**NEW THIS YEAR: There is a new iPhone/iPad App! Just download at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phil-klines-unsilent-night/id483509723?mt=8

Dress for the weather and don't forget to download your music before you come!

WHEN: 
The sculpture will begin at 6:30pm. Please plan to devote 45 minutes to this musical walk through and about The Village grounds. The sound sculpture will conclude at Left Foot Charley Winery for free hot cider, cookies, and vintage Christmas tunes played off the old Wurlitzer jukebox.

Schedule of Events:
6pm Gather for Unsilent Night
6:30pm-7:15PM Sound sculpture and walk around commons
7:15PM-9PM Free hot (non-alcoholic) cider, cookies and vintage Christmas tunes on the Wurlitzer jukebox.

Call 995-0500 to reserve your spot today!

Join Werner and Margrit Kuehnis for 5th Annual Swiss Family Wine Dinner at Left Foot Charlie, Traverse City, @PureMichigan, 1-10-2014 7 PM

Swiss Family Wine Dinner and Pinot Blanc Tasting

LFC is hosting a Swiss Family Wine Dinner on Jan 10, 2014 from 7pm-9pm.  At this dinner we will offer cellar samples of the Pinot Blanc for the first time.  Read below for the details on the dinner.

January 10th, 2014 7PM
$60 Includes Food and Wine
Reservations Required - Limited Seating
 
Your gracious hosts Werner and Margrit Kuehnis, growers of the great Pinot Blanc at Island View, will be cooking you a traditional Swiss Dinner complete with authentic Raclette served by Werner himself.  Our staff will be joining you for this family style dinner.  It's a great chance to enjoy our wines in their natural habitat and meet the staff who works so hard to bring them from vine to wine.   As an extra special bonus, we will be offering a sneak peek of the 2013 Pinot Blanc and opening the pre-sale reservations for this wine.  We will probably raid the cellar for some past vintages as well.

If you would like to reserve your space, please call the winery at 231-995-0500.

Cheers!

Left Foot Charlie
806 Red Drive Suite #100 Traverse City, Michigan 49684 231-995-0500
 

Learn how to make Ice Wine in Niagara-on-the-Lake this January; Work in the Cold Vineyards & Warm Up at White Oaks Resort & Spa!

It's back and cooler than ever...

Intense Icewine Weekend January 18 & 19, 2014

Winemaker Katie Dickieson has a really cool job…literally. Are you tough enough to live the life of our winemaker during Icewine harvest? Over a weekend can you: Brave sub-zero temperatures in our Icewine vineyards? Identify 6 different Icewines in a blind tasting? Tend an acre of Icewine vines? Eat and sip through 11 courses? Peller Estates' Intense Icewine Weekend: A Boot Camp for Bon Vivants gives guests the opportunity to experience all of these activities and more.

Join Winemaker Katie Dickieson and Chef Jason Parsons for an intimate, non-stop journey through the exclusive world of Icewinemaking. Check out the full itinerary of the weekend!

Price is $550 per person, $895 per couple, exclusive of taxes and gratuities (includes accommodation at White Oaks Resort & Spa, transportation in Niagara-on-the-Lake on Saturday, 2 lunches, 1 dinner and an exceptionally memorable Icewine weekend.)

Spots are limited - reserve today by calling: 1.888.673.5537 ext. 2

At dinner, enjoyed a bottle of Lopez Noceti 1919 Malbec, 2011 Vintage. Don't ask me for tasting notes. Buy Your Own Bottle.

It's no secret that the Wine Sauvage is mad about wines from Mendoza Argentina made from the Malbec Grape. Lopez Noceti makes good use of the Malbec for its 1919 Malbec. I relished a bottle of 1919 at the bar of the Holiday Inn, downtown Muskegon. The 2011 vintage is clearly a drink now vintage, and yet this wine exceeds the term, table wine.

The wine is made in the vineyard, a yard of vines sixty years old, hand harvested from vines that have been pruned to give only a few grape clusters chance to mature. Low yield makes those grapes more potent. All of the grapes comes from this estate. The wine is aged for six months in oak from France and that barrel wood upstart, the United States. 

The tannins are present yet softened. Acid is present and yet understated. Flavor is fruity, reminding one of blackberries and blueberries in an homemade jam. The aroma is fresh, reminding one of the fruit of the woods, our blackberries and blueberries.

The light acid and the robust fruit remind me of this bottle as the after taste lingers. 

I paired this wine with a grilled New York Strip, medium rare, and the two made magic happen on my palette.

Lopez Noceti