The Sweet Life
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
Late Harvest Riesling
The Late Harvest Riesling is always a fun wine to make, especially back in 2020. The Riesling grape varietals can have distinct flavors depending on how they develop late in the season. We push our harvest dates back as late as possible to take advantage of this, and from October 23-29, 2020, we harvested these grapes from nine separate vineyards at two sites. This allowed us to create this great wine, which recently earned an 88 rating from Wine&Spirits. It features a rich honey flavor and white floral notes. You may also taste hints of green apple with a sugared grapefruit finish.
Suggested pairing: Apple Pie
Suggested pairing: Buffalo Chicken Pizza
Suggested pairing: Apple Pie
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
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!
