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Today, our focus returns to Michigan wine and our friends at Cogdal Vineyards<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve looked at our website or read our blog, you know that all of us at Wickwood Inn are HUGE fans of good food, great beverages, and loads of laughter. Owner and bestselling cookbook author, Julee Rosso, has always believed in bringing people together around good food. Why?\u00a0 Because of the conversation and camaraderie that unfolds!\u00a0 Everyone at Wickwood delights in sharing our food and recipes, and we want you to know about all the tasty goodness that surrounds us, including our local Michigan wine.<\/p>\n Jack and Deb Murdoch started the vineyard on the original plot of land owned by Jack\u2019s Grandpa, Harry Cogdal, in 2008. Cogdal Vineyards\u2019 location, less than 1\/2 mile away from Lake Michigan (and an easy 20 minute drive from Wickwood!), makes the temperatures ideal for healthy vines and superior grapes for making good Michigan wine.<\/p>\n Currently Cogdal Vineyards has 7 acres of vines, and they produce a beautiful variety of award-winning wines. Everything from their estate grown and selectively sourced Dry Riesling and Cabernet Franc, to Nona\u2019s Kiss Dry Ros\u00e9 (sold out for 2018, but this gold medal winner will be back!) \u2026 to a series of blends under the Little Man Wines<\/i> label:<\/p>\n With this much goodness already happening, we can\u2019t wait to see what their expansion to 18 acres of grapes brings! We love that they already have a well-established tasting room that incorporates cherry<\/span>\u00a0and maple harvested from the property.\u00a0Their expanded patio is the perfect place to taste the wine while enjoying a charcuterie plate and some local goat cheese from nearby Evergreen Lane Farms.<\/p>\n There are 23 Craft Tasting Rooms within 10 miles of Wickwood<\/a> … reserve your getaway to Wickwood Inn today. Be sure and set aside some time to visit Cogdal Vineyards and taste the Michigan wine that they create.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you want to learn more about what else is happening in and around Saugatuck, check out our many other blogs about our local West Michigan restaurants, farms, food, and beverages.<\/p>\n Visit Cogdal Vineyards: Today, our focus returns to Michigan wine and our friends at Cogdal Vineyards.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve looked at our website or read our blog, you know that all of us at Wickwood Inn are HUGE fans of good food, great beverages, and loads of laughter. Owner and bestselling cookbook author, Julee Rosso, has always believed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":10924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-drink","category-things-to-do-in-saugatuck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10915"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11115,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10915\/revisions\/11115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/souciehorner.com\/wickdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}“Drinking good wine with good food in good company is one of life’s most civilized pleasures.\u201d
\n~ Michael Broadbent<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n\n
\u201cWine is the most civilized thing in the world.”
\n~ Ernest Hemingway<\/em><\/h3>\n
\n<\/i>7143 107th<\/sup> Ave, South Haven
\n269-637-2229
\nlittlemanwinery@gmail.com<\/a>
\nhttps:\/\/www.cogdalvineyards.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"