Karma Vista Vineyards: Meet the Makers Season 3 Episode 3

Take the Makers Trail toward Coloma to check out another great winery in Southwest Michigan, Karma Vista Winery! A beautiful landscape of rolling vineyards that you see as you walk into the tasting room of this winery that is celebrating their 17th year! The team at Karma Vista are taking a much ne…

Red Top Winery: Meet the Makers Season 3 Episode 2

All I have to say is Wine.On.Tap! Yes it’s TRUE! They have wine on tap at Red Top Winery! This is a really cool place to check out on The Makers Trail. I had a chance to sit down with Rocky and Allison, the owners of this very unique winery in their tasting room in Baroda, where even the counter to…

Free Run Cellars: Meet The Makers Season 3 Episode 1

As I head out on another journey along the Maker’s Trail I find myself at Free Run Cellars in Berrien Springs. Tucked back off the road behind the trees you’ll find this quaint tasting room that is perfect for stopping by for a quick tasting with friends. It’s also a great place for maybe having a …

Vineyard 2121: Meet the Makers Season 2 Episode 4

Sometimes you need an escape from the everyday chaos of life, and a great place to do that is at Vineyard 2121. Sit back and relax with a glass of wine, cider of even a wine-arita! This a great place to try some great Michigan wine and a place to make new friends. “The setting will bring you in, th…

Round Barn Brewery & Public House: Meet the Makers Season 2 Episode 3

  Downtown Baroda, Michigan is home to one of the best breweries around, Round Barn Brewery & Public House. Good food, good beers and good times. With great mainstay beers and some awesome seasonal brews, you are sure to find a beer that you will love. The behind it all is Head Brewer Malkam Wyman…

Lehman Farmhouse: Meet the Makers, Season 2 Episode 2

In the little town of Buchanan, Michigan you’ll find one of the coolest places on the Makers Trail, Lehman’s Farmhouse. What used to be an old industrial building for Clark Manufacturing is now getting new life thanks to Steve Lecklider. He has transformed a building that had been sitting dormant f…

Gravity Winery: Meet the Makers, Season 2 Episode 1

At Gravity Winery they do things a little differently. Not only do they strive to make great tasting wines, but they also want to make it a “delightfully memorable” experience. They recently remodeled their 2,000 square foot tasting room that was built only a few years ago in 2011. Inside the tasti…

Makers Trail 19th Hole – Bonus Episode – Meet the Makers

It is one of the biggest events of the year in Southwest Michigan, The 79th KitchenAid Senior PGA Championship and it will be here in a little over a month, May 22-27 at Harbor Shores in Benton Harbor, Michigan. We are very excited about the new Makers Trail 19th Hole that will feature some amazing…

Baroda Founders Wine Cellars: Meet the Makers, Episode 12

In the heart of wine country in Baroda is a great winery Baroda Founders Wine Cellars. Owned by the Olson family that has a rich history in the wine country in Southwest Michigan! Jonny had a chance to sit down with Gunnar Olson to talk about how his father Len was part of the beginning of wine gra…

Lazy Ballerina Winery: Meet the Makers, Episode 11

Not everyone had a grandmother that made homemade wine but Lauren and Melanie of Lazy Ballerina did and those wonderful moments with their grandmother were just the beginning of their love for wine! Two cousins that spent years working in the wine industry decided just a couple years ago to start t…