The Detroit News reports that our very own Black Star Farms had the distinction of having their A Capella Riesling ice wine serve at a recent White House dinner. Below is the article ‘Governors sip Michigan ice wine at White House‘.

LANSING — The sauvignon blanc was from California, the pinot noir from Oregon.

But the wine served Sunday night with dessert as the nation’s governors dined at the White House with President Barack Obama and his wife was the most unusual — a Michigan ice wine from Black Star Farms in Suttons Bay.

The frozen grapes were picked in December 2007 and crushed outside so they wouldn’t thaw. The wine was released last July and sells for $80 or more for a half bottle.

The White House paired the sweet A Capella Riesling ice wine with huckleberry cobbler with caramel ice cream.

Black Star Farms managing partner Don Coe says former President George W. Bush and his wife served the winery’s 2000 A Capella ice wine to a governors’ dinner seven years ago.

The video below shows the 2007 harvest and crush that produced the wine served at the dinner.

Photo credit: Black Star Farms winery “Taste the Passion” event 2007 by u249027