The Winery Leelanau Cellars of Michigan

Winery Leelanau Cellars
The winery offers 45 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.7.
It is ranked in the top 17 of the estates of Michigan.
It is located in Michigan

The Winery Leelanau Cellars is one of the world's great estates. It offers 45 wines for sale in of Michigan to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Leelanau Cellars wines

Looking for the best Winery Leelanau Cellars wines in Michigan among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Leelanau Cellars wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Leelanau Cellars wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of sauté of veal with olives (corsica), sophie's tuna cake or red mullet fillets in saffron sauce.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

On the nose the red wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars. often reveals types of flavors of non oak, oak or spices and sometimes also flavors of red fruit, microbio or black fruit.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 2008With an average score of 3.72/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.71/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.60/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.45/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Riesling
  • Baco Noir
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Concord
  • Merlot

Discovering the wine region of Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Midwestern United States, located between Great Lakes Huron and Michigan, along the northern border of the United States with Canada. Grape wine production in the state focuses on cool Climate vinifera varieties, while fruit wine production is also significant. The state is also known for its craft breweries and a growing spirits industry. Riesling has quickly become the most important noble grape, supported by varieties such as Pinot blanc, pinot grigio and Gewurztraminer.

The Bordeaux varieties, Gamay and Pinot Noir are among the most important red varieties. In regions further inland from the Great Lakes, cold-hardy Hybrid grapes are more common. Examples include Marquette, Frontenac and Vidal. Michigan is one of the few wine regions in the world that can produce natural ice wines.

The top white wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or vegetarian such as recipes of oven-baked sausage, salmon steak on a bed of leeks or nanie's diced ham quiche.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

On the nose the white wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars. often reveals types of flavors of vegetal, oak or tree fruit and sometimes also flavors of microbio, citrus fruit.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 2016With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2014With an average score of 4.00/5
  • 0With an average score of 3.66/5
  • 2017With an average score of 3.26/5
  • 2011With an average score of 3.20/5
  • 2008With an average score of 3.12/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars.

  • Riesling
  • Chardonnay
  • Moscato
  • Pinot Grigio
  • Vignoles

Discover the grape variety: Baco noir

It is the only vinifera-riparia that has been commercialized. It is the result of crossing the folle blanche with the riparia grand glabre created in 1902 by François Baco. Depending on the region, we can still find some small plots of black Baco vines often mixed with other varieties. You will also find trellises or arbors installed a long time ago in front of old houses and still maintained in a more than remarkable way thanks to the great vigour of this variety. It should be noted that there is also a white baco resulting from the crossing of the folle blanche by the noah and resembling much the latter.

The top sparkling wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a sparkling wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of sweet desserts such as recipes of king's cake with frangipane.

The best vintages in the sparkling wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 0With an average score of 3.92/5

The grape varieties most used in the sparkling wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars.

  • Moscato

The word of the wine: Sapid

Said of a wine rich in flavours.

The top sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a sweet wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pork, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or spicy food such as recipes of quiche with mixed vegetables, croque-monsieur with tuna or pork gyros.

The best vintages in the sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 0With an average score of 4.00/5

The grape varieties most used in the sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars.

  • Riesling

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

The top natural sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a natural sweet wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

Organoleptic analysis of natural sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

On the nose the natural sweet wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars. often reveals types of flavors of oak.

The best vintages in the natural sweet wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 2011With an average score of 4.60/5
  • 0With an average score of 4.40/5

The word of the wine: Burgundy melon

A white grape variety from Burgundy that is not widely used in its native region, but has spread to the Nantes region. It is the exclusive variety of Muscadet. It gives a dry pale yellow wine, supple and lively, with an intense bouquet, to which maturing on lees gives fatness and aromatic complexity.

The top pink wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Leelanau Cellars

How Winery Leelanau Cellars wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes such as recipes .

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Leelanau Cellars

  • 0With an average score of 3.50/5

Discover the grape variety: Chardonnay

The white Chardonnay is a grape variety that originated in France (Burgundy). It produces a variety of grape specially used for wine making. It is rare to find this grape to eat on our tables. This variety of grape is characterized by small bunches, and small grapes. White Chardonnay can be found in many vineyards: South West, Burgundy, Jura, Languedoc & Roussillon, Cognac, Bordeaux, Beaujolais, Savoie & Bugey, Loire Valley, Champagne, Rhone Valley, Armagnac, Lorraine, Alsace, Provence & Corsica.

Discover other wineries and winemakers neighboring the Winery Leelanau Cellars

Planning a wine route in the of Michigan? Here are the wineries to visit and the winemakers to meet during your trip in search of wines similar to Winery Leelanau Cellars.

Discover the grape variety: Cabernet franc

Cabernet Franc is one of the oldest red grape varieties in Bordeaux. The Libourne region is its terroir where it develops best. The terroirs of Saint-Emilion and Fronsac allow it to mature and develop its best range of aromas. It is also the majority in many blends. The very famous Château Cheval Blanc, for example, uses 60% Cabernet Franc. The wines produced with Cabernet Franc are medium in colour with fine tannins and subtle aromas of small red fruits and spices. When blended with Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon, it brings complexity and a bouquet of aromas to the wine. It produces fruity wines that can be drunk quite quickly, but whose great vintages can be kept for a long time. It is an earlier grape variety than Cabernet Sauvignon, which means that it is planted as far north as the Loire Valley. In Anjou, it is also used to make sweet rosé wines. Cabernet Franc is now used in some twenty countries in Europe and throughout the world.