Thunder Bay Winery & Brew — Attraction in Alpena

Great wine tasting experience in the historic Center Building in downtown Alpena. Thunder Bay Winery has a variety of delicious wines locally grown at their vineyard in Ossineke, with a great selection of whites, reds, roses, fruit wines, and dessert wines. They also have rotating sparkling wines and ciders, which are delicious.

While most of their wines are on the sweet side, the Cab/Zinf blend is to die for, as is their house red for dry-wine lovers. Their port wine, aged in bourbon barrels, as well as their specialty ice wine are also delightful.

A great spot to meet with friends and enjoy wine by the glass or by the bottle with incredibly friendly and knowledgeable staff!

A must for any visit to...

Okay, first let me say the owner or manager or bartender or whatever he is has a ridiculously good memory. I've been there three times: tonight, a year ago right about this time, and then two years before that. He's remembered me the last two times. Seriously. I see him once a year and he remembered me buying a growler of the cherry to take home to the wife three years ago.

The wine's good. The wine's excellent. Sitting on the patio is a bonus, but inside is good too. It's just about perfect. If your night out in Alpena ends here, you've...

This is one of my all time favorite wineries. Their Devil's River wine is so freaking amazing, Red Sky at Night is A+, Cranberry is just about perfect, Harbor of Alpena is complicated but lovely, and now after stopping by the Alpena location I get to add the Lighthouse White as one of my favorites. It's bubbly, sweet, and so good.

If you're in Alpena (or Petoskey) it's 100% worth stopping in, get a tasting, you won't regret any of...