Chateau Chantal

Just in time for the celebration of Chateau Chantal’s fifteenth anniversary winemakers Mark Johnson and Brian Hosmer are excited to release one their best products yet! Chateau Chantal celebrates our 15th anniversary beginning June 16th, 2008. This two-week celebration features toasts of the popular Celebrate Old Mission Peninsula Champagne each day leading up to our July 1 celebration with a 15-year anniversary cake!

The release of our 2007 Proprietor’s Reserve Pinot Gris will also celebrate the anniversary. “We believe this to be one of our best wines made this vintage year. One may find hints of peach, honey and acacia. This Pinot Gris experienced extended hang time, barrel fermentation, and was surlie aged for six months on neutral oak,” (Hosmer). The 2007 Proprietor’s Reserve Pinot Gris is a very limited production of only 176 cases. The last time Chateau Chantal released a Pinot Gris was 2006 and it sold out by the end of 2007.

2007 ICE WINE HARVEST

For Immediate Release

Contacts:Mark Johnson
Brian Hosmer
800-969-4009
wine@chateauchantal.com

After another fantastic grape growing season Chateau Chantal is looking forward to another magnificent Ice Wine.
Chateau Chantal has only had a few ice wine harvests in recent years, which is why we are so excited about this years crop. Ice wine is made from grapes frozen on the vine, and then pressed while still frozen. It’s known for its incredible sweetness and fruitiness, with all the delicateness
of a rich and lush desert wine, often described as “liquid gold”.
To give you another example of the unique quality of Ice Wine, in a normal 1-ton harvest you can produce 175 gallons of wine, but in a 1-ton harvest of Ice Wine you are able to produce only 40 gallons of wine.
The harvest took place last Saturday December 15th at before sunrise (6:45am) in 12-degree (Fahrenheit) weather. We only had a ½ acre area to harvest so the harvest was completed less than 2 hours.
Chateau Chantal invites you to come and do a story on this process. Our wine makers Mark Johnson and Brian Hosmer will be available to talk with you and provide you with the details and answer any questions that you have. If you are interested in coming to do a story please give us a call at 800-969-4009 or 231-223-4110.

Chateau Chantal is proud to announce our collaboration with the artcenter Traverse City and local artist Charles Murphy to release a limited bottling of 2006 Semi Dry Riesling. The specially produced label features a Charles Murphy painting, celebrating 30 years of painting in Grand Traverse, and will be signed and numbered by the artist. The wine will be sold for $19.99 per bottle and a portion of each sale will be donated to the artcenter Traverse City.

Charles Murphy has been painting and exhibiting throughout the Grand Traverse region for the past 30 years. His work in watercolor and oil media features landscape, seascape, social commentary, humor, and pure abstraction. Charles Murphy teaches painting at the artcenter Traverse City. A commemorative poster is also available featuring the same artwork. Charles will be at the winery from 1-3pm on September 29th and October 13th to personalize further a poster or the wine bottles.

The mission of artcenter Traverse City is “Encouraging art, artists and art education in the Grand Traverse region and beyond…” and it is a driving force behind the growing creative community in northwest Michigan. For more information about the artcenter Traverse City visit their website: www.artcentertraversecity.com

Chateau Chantal is located on Old Mission Peninsula and grows grapes, crafts wine, and offers overnight B&B accommodations to guests from a stunning location high atop a ridge with views of East and West Grand Traverse Bays. This 2006 Semi Dry Riesling carries an Old Mission Peninsula appellation and was awarded a Gold Medal from the 2007 Tasters Guild International Wine Competition and a Silver Medal from the 2007 Indianapolis International Wine Competition. For more information about the winery please visit our website at: www.chateauchantal.com