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Left Foot Charley is in Traverse City, Michigan.

Left Foot Charley is joining the movement to discover 'place' in wine and is throwing local color around like a frenzied painter.

Old Mission Peninsula (AVA)

Left Foot Charley
A New-Wave Model For Michigan

Something new is unfolding in the American consciousness. We are beginning to appreciate "place". Our tables, our songs, our whisky, our wine needs to be from somewhere or it all becomes just another white page.
~Bryan Ulbrich

by Eleanor & Ray Heald
July 13, 2007

When Left Foot Charley winery opened in July 2007, a new-era model for Michigan wine production was launched in the Old Mission Peninsula AVA.

Left Foot Charley (LFC) was conceived in 2004 when proprietor and winemaker Bryan Ulbrich (then Peninsula Cellars winemaker) began making micro lots of wine from small growers in Michigan's Old Mission Peninsula AVA. Because Ulbrich believes that Riesling, Pinot Blanc, Pinot Gris (which the winery labels Pinot Grigio) and Gewurztraminer are stellar varieties for the appellation, these varieties are his focus.

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