There is now a very solid group of producers who don’t need to fear comparisons between their wines and those produced anywhere else on Planet Riesling.
Unlike other athletic events, the Women’s Tour features no stopwatches or numbered bibs. In fact, it’s entirely noncompetitive. Participants ski or snowshoe at their own pace, stopping along the trail for locally crafted wines, gourmet cuisine, desserts and chocolates
Hundreds of fans from the U.S. and Canada come to watch and meet as many as 70 team members in what may be the sport’s most up close and personal series of events.
In 1957 writer Tom Brank was exploring the little towns of northern Michigan, where he and his companions stumbled upon the then one hundred year old Sleeping Bear Inn.