Why Choose Laurentide Winery?
Why Laurentide? Because if you prefer and desire to drink and support local wines, you will find the grapes to grow our wine on French Road in Lake Leelanau. We are an estate boutique winery, a family owned business since 2006 specializing in cool climate wines.
If you want innovative, creative, award winning wines that honor the terroir of Northern Michigan, try our current vintages of 15 types of wine. With over 160 awards to date, we excell at most wines produced since our 1st 2010 vintage. Try Sauvignon Blanc, our flagship wine or even more unique, our Fume Blanc, the only in Michigan. From fun Bubble de Bubble, a sexy fizzy Chardonnay to our weighty Reserve Meritage blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot, we have a large repertoire of wine to satisfy your tastes and your budgets.
If you yearn for kind and knowledgeable staff, we train our staff and serve our wines with a smile. If we don’t know the answer to your question, we’ll find out if you’d like so you don’t drive away with another confusing wine myth stuck in your head. Our philosophy is that training is continual and we practice servant leadership.
If you would like to host a private event, we offer our lovely tasting room to reserve after hours for small plates wine pairings so you can leave the details and service to us. Expert wine pairing and small plate preparations are chosen per your needs and requests.
If you want to see the vines that make the wine in your glass, reserve a private vineyard tour available May-October. We’ll take your small group for a 1 hour guided trip to our vines 3 miles away on one of the highest spots in Leelanau, where you can take a picture, pick a petoskey stone and smell the grapes ripening.
If you want to mingle, stand at the bar, check out our rotating artist of the month display or shop our retail logo items. If you want a rendevous, enjoy sitting at the quiet tables inside or out for an intimate chat. Our indoor tables are set aside for customers that desire a sit down tasting of wine flights which can challenge your deductive skills so you leave Laurentide knowing much more than when you entered. We can tease you with blind flights or tailor a custom flight however you want to delight your palate.
If you are tired of fighting for a parking space and jostling for a spot in a noisy tasting room and if you want to be far from the madding crowds, drive into the bucolic heart of Leelanau. You can hear the birds, the buzz of the bees and listen to the live music playing on the patio, on the stereo or in your heart while sipping superb wine at the bar, or tables inside and out.
If you want to know that Wine is History started 350 million years ago and the reason why we are named Laurentide, please visit us, stay a while, lend an ear and we’ll tell you our story: Laurentide Winery.
Cheers! See you at Laurentide…
