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Profiles: Tartan Hill Winery

Tartan Hill Winery

Tartan Hill produces 900 cases of wines a year.

Tartan Hill Winery is a small, family-owned winery that opened for business in 1985. It is located 3.5 miles from Lake Michigan on high terrain where winds off the big lake moderate the frigid winter temperatures. Since all of the wines are estate-bottled, with grapes grown only from Tartan Hill vineyards, the total wine production is very limited. The 1995 Tartan Mist captured a gold medal at the American Wine Society's commercial winery competition.

Annually, approximately 15 varieties of wines and 900 cases are produced at Tartan Hill. Most of the wines are made from blends of different grape varieties. Red wines produced in 2006 include Proprietor’s Reserve Red, produced from a unique blend of French-American hybrid grapes and Tartan Red, which is a blend of deChaunac and Foch grapes. White wines include Late Harvest Tartan Gold, Tartan White, and Proprietor’s Reserve White.

Resources:

Personal interview (2006. November 28). Carlson, B. (White Lake Library), Goralski, R. (Tartan Hill Winery), Russell, C. (White Swan Inn), Scholl, S. (Scholl Farms), Swanson, J. (Country Dairy), Van Loon, A. (White Lake Area Chamber of Commerce), White, T. (Women's Lifestyle Magazine), Wolfe, K.

Silfven, S. (2004). Michigan's Oceana County a growth area for wineries. Detroit News. September 2, 2004.

Tartan Hill Winery. (2006). [onilne resource].

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