Michigan's best wineries and wine trails

Tabor Hill Winery and Restaurant in Buchanan celebrates its 50th anniversary this weekend.

Tastings are held inside the barrel room at Tabor Hill Winery and Restaurant in Buchanan.

Grapes in the vineyard at Bowers Harbor Vineyards on Traverse City's Old Mission Peninsula.

Cala James/GraphicRed chairs welcome visitors to the Petoskey Farms Vineyard and Winery tasting room in downtown Petoskey.

Chantelle Yoy pours the Apricot, a sweet fruit wine, for a guest at the Petoskey Farms Vineyard and Winery tasting room in downtown Petoskey.

Among the must-visits in Traverse City, Michigan, are Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery in Old Mission Peninsula. A former barn in the 91-acre estate has been transformed into a storybook two-bedroom guesthouse with vineyard views from every window, not to mention breathtaking vistas of East Grand Traverse Bay.

An elevated deck attached to the tasting room at the Brys Estate winery provides magnificent views of the vineyards and the lake beyond.

Walter Brys (center right) and his wife Eileen Brys (center left) pour wine for Jennifer Jones (left) and Janna Gates (right), both of Traverse City, at a table in the Cask Room of Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery at the business located on the Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City on Wednesday May 15, 2013.

Matt Moersch oversees harvest at the wineries his family owns — Tabor Hill, Round Barn and Free Run Cellars. Moersch says subzero temperatures in December and a spring frost led to a lower-than-expected yield with some grapes. But the result should be a strong vintage year with the remainder. Tribune Photo/BECKY MALEWITZ

Four thousand five hundred grape plants cover thirty-four acres used in the eighty-acre parcel of land at Brys Estate Vineyard & Winery located on the Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City on Wednesday May 15, 2013. The winery produces 8,500 cases of wine grown on the property a year.

The entry to 2 Lads Winery on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City Wednesday, Jan.13, 2021.

Winemaker Thomas Houseman poses for a portrait in the wine cellar at 2 Lads Winery on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City Wednesday Jan. 13, 2021.

Free Run Cellars, an offshoot of Round Barn Winery, offers a tasting experience unique to the southwest Michigan wine region. Tribune Photo/BECKY MALEWITZ

Black Star Farms proprietor Sherri Campbell Fenton stands in a field of grapes at her winery, B&B and gourmet restaurant in Suttons Bay on Sept. 16, 2021.

The wine cellar of Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay is shown on Friday, July 22, 2022.

Bottles of wine are displayed for sale at the Chateau Fontaine.

Michigan is the 4th largest grape-growing state in the country. Michigan wines from left to right: Leelanau Cellars' Winter White, M. Lawrence SEX Brut Rose by Mawby Vineyards, Black Star Farms winery Late Harvest Riesling, Chateau Chantal's Naughty Red and Cranberry wine from the Round Barn winery. Photo taken Tuesday, July 27, 2010.

Diane Colvin of Hazel Park, right, at the Shady Lane Cellars winery on the Leelanau Peninsula Sept. 15, 2013.. She bought a Groupon for a five-hour wine tour that went to 7 wineries.

Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay fermentation room is show in October 2004.

Ray Harriman, 42, works on mowing down the scrub brush between the rows of grapes in the vineyard of Black Star Farms on the Leelanau Peninsula in Suttons Bay Tuesday, July 19, 2005.

Tandem Ciders in Suttons Bay makes several kinds of hard cider using local apples. Its barn-shaped building also holds its tasting room. Photo taken June 14, 2014.

Cross-country skis are a great way to tour Northern Michigan’s wine country. The 7.5 mile Leelanau Ski/Snowshoe Wine Trail connects Blustone Vineyards, Forty-Five North Vineyard and Winery, and Tandem Ciders.