Michigan Wines. 2010 Murmur - Left Foot Charley



For the past two years, I have taken my wife, Crystal, up to Traverse City, MI for a long weekend as birthday present.  No kids, just the two of us.  Both times we have stayed at The Inn at Chateau Grand Traverse on the Old Mission Peninsula.  It is gorgeous.  It is a self-serve bed and breakfast. There are 6 rooms for adults only.  Very relaxing, very quiet.

The Old Mission and Leelanua peninsula’s are home to 25 wineries and vineyards.  While on our last trip there this past August, we stopped at most of them and purchased a bottle or two from each. When we got home we had about a cases worth of wine from all the different wineries we visited.  The most resent bottle we opened was the 2010 Murmur from Left Foot Charley.  Here is a little history about Left Foot Charley.  Owner/winemaker Bryan Ulbrich and his wife Jennifer have been operating Left Foot Charley since 2004.  They do not have their own vineyard, but instead have partnered with several of Northern Michigan’s top vineyards and use their grapes to make LFC wines.  The LFC Winery and Tasting room are located in The Village, formerly the Northern Michigan Asylum.  Don’t worry, it is no longer and Asylum and has been beautifully renovated and is home to a community of homes, artists, restaurants, retail, a bakery, coffee houses and roaster, and now the LFC winery.

But enough about the winery, on to the wine.  As I mentioned before, we just opened a bottle of the 2010 Murmur.  Murmur is a white table wine blend consisting of Vignoles, Riesling, Traminette and Chard.  This was a very refreshing wine.  Though it does have Riesling in it, this wine was not too sweet for my palette.  At room temperature, I was able taste a lot of the different flavors going on.  There was a little acid to help balance out the sweet of the Riesling.  There were definitely pear and apple flavors going on.  One of my favorite things about this wine was the crisp, clean after taste.  All in all this was a very good white table wine good for an appetizer wine or just to sit back and relax and sip on.