About Glen Arbor Wines
Come for a taste, stay and play
About Glen Arbor Wines
Come for a taste, stay and play
Glen Arbor Wines is a product of my love affair with Glen Arbor—a tiny, picture-perfect town on Lake Michigan's Sleeping Bear Bay. I spent every summer of my childhood here, swimming in the bay, floating in inner tubes down the Crystal River, hiking the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and hanging out at beach bonfires. Spend any time here and you'll know why Glen Arbor weaves its way into your very DNA. Just out of college, I headed straight to Glen Arbor to take over my grandparents' small restaurant, now the Western Avenue Grill. Ten year later I was off on a new career as a writer and editor covering Northern Michigan.
All the while, I lived in Glen Arbor, a town that as far as I was concerned had everything—except a business dedicated to tasting and experiencing the incredible and award-winning local wines made on our Leelanau Peninsula, just north of the Sleeping Bear Dunes. It turns out, some friends who are Leelanau winemakers agreed and Glen Arbor Wines was born. Find our wines, taste them, have a glass and buy a bottle at the comfortable, relaxed tasting room that I have poured my heart and my love for this beautiful peninsula and town into.
—Lissa Edwards, Owner
Taste •Sip •love
Taste local wines, enjoy by the glass & purchase by the bottle
Taste •Sip •love
Taste local wines, enjoy by the glass & purchase by the bottle
Find Glen Arbor Wines tucked between Glen Arbor's busy M22 strip and the sandy public beach/boat launch on Sleeping Bear Bay. Here, in our vintage-style tasting room, surrounded by ancient oaks and white pines, you'll find a relaxing, intimate setting for tasting our local wines, enjoying them by the glass or choosing a bottle to take home. Our lovely grounds—outfitted with a bocce court and other lawn games--are made for lounging after a day on the beach. Our cooler is stocked with chilled wine and deli items and our shelves are stocked with gourmet crackers and other snacks.
Our wines are crafted from grapes grown in the famous Leelanau Peninsula terroir by a third generation Leelanau County wine making family. In our wines, you'll taste this beautiful land graced by sand dunes, water, forests and vineyards. Glen Arbor wines also carries hard cider made from our famous Leelanau Peninsula apples. Enjoy at our tasting room, or take them home by the bottle or growler.