Bel Lago in the News

  • "For 25 years the Moreno family has worked for Bel Lago, planting, pruning, managing the canopy and harvesting the grapes that founder and winemaker Charles Edson have turned into 12 different delicious wines."

    Glen Arbor Sun - Second-Generation Farmhand Delivers Grapes, Workers, Tortillas

  • "Happy hour at home: Winery, cheesemaker collaborate. Michigan tasting rooms may be closed, but Bel Lago Vineyards and Winery in Cedar found a way to bring happy hour to customers."

    Record Eagle News - Happy Hour at Home

  • "And then Bel Lago [on the Leelanau Peninsula]. Great Pinot Noir. And like every place up there, it’s a beautiful view wherever you go. The people are always nice — that Midwestern kindness."

    Michigan Wine Country - Certified Superfan

  • "Bel Lago Vineyards and Winery also won double gold for its French Valley Traminette."

    Record Eagle - Best of Class for Black Star Farms

  • "At Bel Lago and French Valley Vineyard, winemaker Blake Lougheed especially likes to age red wines in oak barrels."

    MLIVE - From oak barrels to concrete eggs, ‘there’s no 1 way to make a wine

  • “We have so many different wines on our card and we focus on every single line with the same intensity,” said Charles Edson, Founder and Winemaker, Bel Lago Winery.

    TV 9&10 Interview - Brewvine: Bel Lago Winery, April 2021

  • "Michigan wineries offer shipping deals to help you restock during stay-home orders. Many Michigan wineries are offering sweet special shipping deals right now, as tasting rooms and wine events across the state have been closed or put on hold on account of the COVID-19 crisis. The deals range from free shipping and penny shipping to even, in one case, a bonus of gourmet Northern Michigan-made cheese."

    MLIVE - Life & Culture

  • Quarantine Wine: Wineries Shift To Shipping. "Leelanau Peninsula wineries have implemented shipping deals and partnerships to keep business flowing and customers stocked up during the shelter-in-place mandate."

    Leelanau Ticker - Quarantine Wine: Wineries Shift To Shipping

  • BEL LAGO’S LEELANAU PRIMAVERA (& MORE!) BOTTOMS UP. "It’s always seemed a bit short of a shrift that moms — those bearers of babes, slaves to tantrum-ing tots, and saints for a lifetime — get celebrated one measly day out of 365. Thanks then to three local merchants who, the day after Mother’s Day, announced they’ll cut us kids a deal to honor Mom all month long."

    Northern Express - Bel Lago’s Leelanau Primavera (& More!)

  • ‘Make Shelter at Home a Little Happier’: Bel Lago Adds Cheese. "Bel Lago Winery in the Leelanau County community of Cedar has teamed up with a local artisan cheesemaker to offer a package to customers in this time of social distancing."

    Michigan Wine Country - Bel Lago Adds Cheese

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