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Circa Estate in Michigan

Leelanau Peninsula (AVA)

Circa Estate Winery Attempts Timelessness

by Eleanor & Ray Heald
July 22, 2009

As Michigan’s wineries have grown to a current total of 64, those in the state’s northwest (both Leelanau Peninsula and Old Mission Peninsula AVAs) witnessed more than growth. There’s a new attitude. In addition to high-styling of wines, it’s sensed in the visionary business acumen of new winery owners and the design
of their wineries. The new Circa Estate Winery in the Leelanau Peninsula AVA is a prime example.


DropCap typically, “circa,” a preposition used before a date to indicate an approximate or estimated time is also synonymous with approximately, around or even roughly. Yet Circa’s proprietors, winemaker Margaret Bell and her winery general manager husband David Bell, didn’t suggest any of those associations when we inquired about the name. “Timeless anywhere or anytime,” was their definition. Once you also know that Margaret’s screen name is “bohemiandoll,” you sense further that Circa is not just a new Leelanau Peninsula AVA winery, but one on a new wave course.

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