Leelanau Peninsula Appellation Library

(news items and features of current interest regarding activity within the Leelanau Peninsula appellation)

___, "Automated System Predicts Grape Yields " ( USDA - Agricultural Research Service: April 21, 2006 )

___, "Can Wine Be Organic?" ( Balanced Living Magazine )

___, "For nation's vintners, days of wine are rosy " ( San Francisco Chronicle: 01/18/2007 )

___, "New Winery Boom Spans North America " ( Wines & Vines: 01/22/2007 )

___, "Black Star Farms to be First Winery on Both Peninsulas" ( Traverse City Business News: 03/01/2007 )

___, "Michigan’s Wine Country Grows Where the Cherry Is King " ( The New York Times Company: 07/13/2007 )

___, "Winemaking branches across nation " ( UNION-TRIBUNE : 09/17/2007 )

___, "Salut! Vineyards vital to Michigan's agribusiness" ( The Holland Sentinel: 04/16/2009 )

Heeger, Jack, "U.S.-European agreement will keep wine flowing across the Atlantic" ( Napa Valley Register: March 16, 2006 )

Silfven, Sandra, "Michigan sees more new winery ventures around Traverse City" ( The Detroit News: September 30, 2004 )

Silfven, Sandra, "Leelanau's Willow Vineyard has a trademark on beauty" ( The Detroit News : July 6, 2006 )

Silfven, Sandra, "Leelanau leads growth surge as Michigan wines come of age" ( The Detroit News : July 12, 2006 )

Silfven, Sandra, "Despite the gray days, Michigan winemakers optimistic about 2006 vintage" ( The Detroit News: 09/21/2006 )

(a cumulative and permanent repository of writings which reflect the development of the Leelanau Peninsula appellation as a distinct winegrowing region. Submission and selection criteria for placement of material in the Permanent Collection)

Adams, Leon D., THE WINES OF AMERICA, THIRD EDITION" ( McGraw-Hill: 1985 )

Cass, Bruce, et.al., THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE WINES OF NORTH AMERICA" ( Oxford University Press: 2000 )

Ensrud, Barbara, AMERICAN VINEYARDS" ( Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1988 )