Tabor Hill gift shop and tasting room.
Uh, grapes.
Some of their fermenters. This is the largest winery in MI, I believe, so they have quite a setup.
Their reds and some whites aging in oak casks.
Vineyard at Tabor Hill.
Switching gears... Back at New Glarus Brewery in New Glarus, WI. It's such a great place. Not only do they make great beer, both basic and more adventurous, but it is such a down home feeling surrounding the whole company. I saw Deb talking to someone in the gift shop when we walked in, and I later saw Dan doing different things in the brewery.
They had a great self-guided tour where you would put an audio device to your ear and press the number by whatever it was you wanted to learn about. They told a story of saving these $1,000,000 copper kettles (one shown above) from a German brewery that was being sold. The kettles were going to be sold for scrap, and they ended up buying them for just over scrap value of $24,000.
The bottling room and a video of the room. 720k
I had never seen this before. They had two monitors on the wall that switched cameras showing different rooms that the public did not have access to. Kind of fun.
This is an important picture. If you have ever had New Glarus Belgian Red, or New Glarus Raspberry Tart, you know that they are out of this world, award winning beers unlike anything else. Well, these are the two casks where they are made. I found out they use some of the wild yeast in the casks as well as their own controlled yeast.
This is kind of a fun panoramic shot of the front of the brewing complex.
Back to downtown Madison I paid my first visit to the renowned Great Dane brewpub. This is my sampler. Few times have I been so pleased by the consistent goodness of all of a brewpub's beers.
These are the 4 bottles of Michigan wine we brought back.
New Glarus had a "6-pack island" where you could mix and match any bottles. I grabbed some I had not had, and Scott's friends sent me home with a couple of their easy-drinking Spotted Cow.
My Unibroue haul.
Two other breweries that are near the area of Quebec we visited.
