A wine country weekend close to home: Southwest Michigan's vineyards boast variety — and a cute new B&B
"Sometimes I take baths because it's hard to drink wine in the shower."
This maxim hangs on the wall near the cedar tub in my room at Among the Vineyards, a bed and breakfast where the shoutouts to grown-up grape juice are as plentiful as misplaced beverage containers on the set of "Game of Thrones." (The B&B's Wi-Fi password? "Drinkwine.")
Each of the four rooms at this new B&B - it opened less than a year ago in the heart of southwest Michigan's wine country - is inspired by wine from a local producer.
My room, Traminette, is a nod to the Gewurztraminer hybrid grape that goes into vivid blue bottles of a semi-sweet white made at Gravity, a nearby vineyard and winery. The other three rooms, occupied on this particular weekend by well-behaved attendees of a bachelorette party,
