On Cloud Wine Club
January 2023 Shipment
Great Lakes Red
Few wines can take you back to your childhood, but this one stands above the rest. The popular Great Lakes Red features 100% concord, the same grape you had as a kid in your lunchtime peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. You might even get a strong taste and aroma of the sparkling grape juice your parents poured you to celebrate New Year’s as a kid. But now, you get the enjoy that taste as a sweet wine. Nutter Butters are an easy pairing, but we added a No Bake Peanut Butter Pie recipe to try with this wine.
Winter White
Winter isn’t coming. It’s here. And the best way to fully embrace the cold is to grab yourself some Winter White. This wine is well-known throughout the area for its unique blue bottle, and it’s enjoyed throughout the entire year because of its taste. The crisp, semi-sweet white blend is a great option for any occasion. Having a pizza night with the fam this weekend? Be sure to have this ready to serve. We think that’d be pretty chill.
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Chardonnay
Chardonnay is among the most popular grapes planted around the world, and 2020 was a good year for ours. This wine has the classic flavors you seek with any Chardonnay, such as honeydew, melon, starfruit, and lychee. And as you pour yourself a glass, check out the ripe peach aroma. That’ll get anyone excited to take a sip. Thinking about a pasta night with your friends? This is the wine for you.
Suggested pairing: Pesto Pasta
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Suggested pairing: Pesto Pasta
White Sangria
Leelanau Cellars features two different Sangrias, a wine that originated in the Iberian Peninsula. Our White Sangria is pretty popular. So much so, it took home Best of Class in 2020 in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. This wine features a balanced flavor of peaches and tropical fruits along with a little bit of floral and spices to add to the Sangria taste. White Sangria also pairs well with our Farm Fresh Cranberry Wine to form a delicious cocktail on a Sunday Funday.
Suggested pairing: Chips and Guac
Raspberry Bubbly Moscato
Our Farm Fresh fruit wines are known for their farm-to-bottle tastes. That’s the case here with the Bubbly Raspberry Moscato. This wine tastes like, you guessed it, raspberries! Fresh and juicy berries with a sweet taste and a little bit of that familiar tart flavor. On top of that, you get to enjoy this wine with some bubbles. This is a great wine to share with family and friends as well since it’s gluten free and vegan friendly. It also forms a perfect pairing with chocolate, which is key with Valentine’s Day quickly approaching. Hint. Hint.
Suggested pairing: Dark Chocolate
Apple Fruit Wine
Enjoy the taste of apple-flavored beverages, but not a fan of hard ciders? This wine is for you. The Lakeshore Farms Apple Wine brings you right to the apple orchard with a crisp and refreshing flavor of ripe apples. The wine doesn’t disappoint, as it took home the Double Gold Award in the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition in 2021. Pair it with some caramel candy to get the full experience of caramel apples.
Suggested pairing: Caramel Candy
Suggested pairing: Chips and Guac
Suggested pairing: Dark Chocolate
Suggested pairing: Caramel Candy
Winter White Bubbly
Do you want more winter when it comes to Groundhog Day? Well, we have plenty of it. The Winter White Bubbly brings the delicious taste from our popular Winter White wine, but it has bubbles! The crisp, semi-sweet wine is a great way to bring the family together for a special occasion.
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese
Autumn Harvest
Sure, it’s been a few months since Autumn was here, but that doesn’t stop us from wanting to drink the Autumn Harvest. Life can be hard sometimes. That’s why we enjoy this easy-drinking red blend. It has a light and lean taste with a bright cherry front and a simple, dry finish. If you’ve had a long day at work, enjoy a glass while you watch re-runs of your favorite TV show.
Suggested pairing: Chex-Mix
Sleeping Bear Red
People come from all over the world to check out the views at the Sleeping Bear Dunes. We think they should give the Sleeping Bear Red a try, too. This wine features flavors of tart baked cookies and red currants, along with some hints of cocoa. It can be enjoyed at night by the fireplace while you “hibernate” from the cold weather outside with a good book.
Suggested pairing: Pizza Rolls
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Mac and Cheese
Suggested pairing: Chex-Mix
Suggested pairing: Pizza Rolls
Blackberry Chill
If you enjoy our semi-sweet white wines, you’ll love our Chill collection. The Blackberry Chill will capture you with the juicy blackberry flavors mixed in a frozen tundra of semi-sweet white wine. This wine can be enjoyed throughout every season, but it’d be a great wine to bring out for the first warm day after a long winter.
Suggested pairing: Lemon Cheesecake
Lakeshore Collection Moscato
You may recognize the taste of the Lakeshore Collection Moscato. In 2022, we rebranded our Tall Ship collection of wines, and they are now known as the Lakeshore Collection. This Moscato features a clean, crisp taste of fruity flavors, reminding you of your favorite candies growing up. Fun fact about our winery: It has been family owned since 1974, and the matriarch of the family handwrote the varietal names that you see now on the Lakeshore Collection bottles.
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Wings
Cherry Wine
Northern Michigan is known for its cherries, and our Farm Fresh cherry wine captures that love. The all-natural fruit wine features a sweet cherry scent and the fresh, juicy flavors you enjoy with cherry wines. This award-winning wine is vegan friendly and gluten free, along with no artificial coloring and no additives or flavoring. The perfect wine to get that sense of being on the Leelanau Peninsula in northern Michigan.
Suggested pairing: Chocolate Mousé
Suggested pairing: Lemon Cheesecake
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Wings
Suggested pairing: Chocolate Mousé
The Cran-Barry White Sangria
1 bottle of White Sangria
½ bottle of Cranberry Wine
16 oz. of lemon sparkling water
One sliced lemon and lime
1 quart of strawberries (optional: orange, peach, pineapple, kiwi, mango, etc.)
Combine and enjoy!
No Bake Peanut Butter Pie
Ingredients
4 oz. cream cheese
3/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup milk
8 oz. frozen whipped topping, thawed
2 (9-inch) prepared graham cracker crusts
Peanut butter candies and syrups for topping
Directions
Beat together cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar. Mix in peanut butter and milk. Beat until smooth. Fold in whipped topping.
Spoon into two 9-inch graham cracker pie shells. Cover and freeze until firm. Takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes to set.
Remove from freezer and allow pie to soften for 10 minutes. Top, slice, and enjoy!
