Tickets can be found for the Aug. 21 tasting in Traverse Metropolis
August 7, 2025 (Traverse Metropolis, MI) — The fourth annual Filth to Glass™ convention returns to Traverse Metropolis, Michigan this month, Aug. 21-22. The convention, a collaboration between Michigan State College, Michigan State College Extension and trade innovators, shares the newest analysis and knowledge geared toward elevating Michigan’s grape and wine trade and empowering growers, winemakers and professionals.
For the primary time this yr – Filth to Glass™ organizers will host a public tasting occasion as a part of the trade convention and it has been included amongst Traverse Metropolis Meals and Wine programming as effectively.
“The Firm We Preserve: A Filth to Glass™ 2025 Tasting Expertise” will characteristic 100 wines to style Aug. 21 at Kirkbride Corridor, 700 Cottageview Dr., Suite 200 in The Village at Grand Traverse Commons, 1200 W. Eleventh Avenue, Traverse Metropolis, Mich.
The wine tasting checklist consists of over 60 Michigan made wines, every rigorously vetted by grasp sommeliers, influential consumers and trade professionals. The remainder of the wines are curated to incorporate bottles from so far as Austria and Germany, and stateside from Washington and Oregon.
By putting locally-grown wines alongside counterparts from throughout the nation and world wide, organizers goal to point out the top quality of Michigan wines inside the context of the worldwide wine market.
“We’re working to position one of the best of Michigan wines into the palms of shoppers to point out how they maintain their place amongst among the best wines made world wide,” mentioned Amanda Danielson, proprietor of Trattoria Stella in Traverse Metropolis, Mich. and an organizer of Filth to Glass™.
Shady Lane Cellars, an award-winning and SIP-certified sustainable property vineyard based mostly in Suttons Bay, Mich. is simply one of many individuals on this public tasting occasion.
Kasey Wierzba, common supervisor and government winemaker for Shady Lane Cellars, served on the tasting panel to evaluate wines and – like many others who did so – shall be in attendance to speak about how wines from the world over are stylistically related to so many made right here in Michigan.
“This shall be an immersive, enjoyable and well-rounded tasting expertise,” Wierzba mentioned.
“The Firm We Preserve: A Filth to Glass™ 2025 Tasting Expertise” opens at 5 p.m. to VIP ticketholders and 6 p.m. to common admission. The occasion runs till 9 p.m. on Aug. 21, 2025.
Tickets can be found at https://occasions.anr.msu.edu/occasion.cfm?eventID=5F56657E9AEBF93DBF2C7CD5058DA26D9C0AA639D125367690DAFB7DBF6055C3.
Basic Admission is $75 or $60 for Michigan State College alumni. Tickets are included for these registered for Filth to Glass™ Day 1.
VIP tickets are $100 or $80 for Michigan State College alumni. VIP Tickets are included for Filth to Glass™ Day 2 registrants.
Trade professionals trying to pre-register to attend Filth to Glass™ Aug. 21-22 can accomplish that right here: https://occasions.anr.msu.edu/occasion.cfm?eventID=D1D5B7272E3829639319661B0FA9711B125B2BBC9CD4713535324061D852DF3F
