Left Foot Charley owns no palatial estate. Our energy is focused on fermenting, aging, and bottling wine. We searched for a unique space to create wine from the region's most significant vineyards. After 11 years, we found this space - in the heart of Traverse City. The Village, formerly the Northern Michigan Asylum, is one of the most extensive historical restoration projects in America. See if you can find us. The beautiful 63 acre campus is being painstakingly renovated by The Minervini Group. It was once home to 3000+ residents, most of whom worked, farmed, and walked freely amongst the beautiful architecture. Minervini's vision is to revive the historic site into a thriving community of homes, artists, restaurants, retail, a bakery, coffee houses and roaster, and now a winery. "Left Foot Charley is a relatively new winery in Traverse City, Michigan. Owner/winemaker Bryan Ulbrich has spent the last decade feeding an obsession around Northern Michigan's fantastic white wines. In that time he has crafted some of the most acclaimed wines East of that other Left Coast - you know they call it Cali-something- they grow great avocados there. Anyway... In 2004, he helped rejuvenate a friend's struggling Riesling vineyard and created 200 cases of his first wine under the LFC label. He and his wife, Jennifer, are in the midst of creating Northern Michigan's first urban winery in the center of the historic Northern Michigan Asylum now known as The Village. Ulbrich is quietly gathering the region's top small vineyards and will showcase them in the new facility opening July 2007.
Wines from Left Foot Charley Winery
- Left Foot Charley Riesling
Rated 2.5/5
- Left Foot Charley Murmur Semi-Dry White
- Left Foot Charley Pinot Grigio
- Left Foot Charley Riesling Seventh Hill Farm
- Left Foot Charley Red Drive
- Left Foot Charley Riesling Semidry
- Left Foot Charley Pinot Blanc Island View Vineyard
- Left Foot Charley Riesling
2004 Michigan Rated 4/5
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