St. Julian winery

Our visit to ST. Julian Winery in Paw Paw, Michigan - July 2002
(From our August, 2002 Newsletter)

Our St. Julian Pictorial
Red Wine Raspberry Sorbet
Whitefish with Lemon Caper Wine Sauce

Michigan's oldest and largest winery has been family-owned and operated since 1921. It produces over 40 fine wines and sparkling alcohol-free juices. Our visit there was very rewarding, tasting many of the wines from the same varieties of grapes that we grow at our farm.

The "Simply Red" is a blend of Foch and DeChaunac with the addition of some fresh grape juice. It is a very nice red wine with a very slightly sweet finish but it does not taste sweet, just fresh.

The "Simply White", "St. J. Village White", and the "Blue Heron" are all blends of Seyval, Vignoles and a few other hybrid grapes with about 10% Reisling added.

Their Niagara wine is a 100% Niagara varietal.

What I am seeing at St. Julian is a lot of blending with sometimes a small amount of vinifera grapes added to the mix. This is something you can do in your own cellar. All of their wines were very sound, clean and refreshing.

St Jullian's winery is also starting to use 100% Michigan Oak barrels for some of their production!!

Click on small picture to view their wine list.

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Web: http://www.stjulian.com/ Email: wines@stjulian.com

716 South Kalamazoo Street - Paw Paw, MI 49079
(269) 657- 5568 or (800) 732-6002

Tasting Rooms
Frankenmuth - (517) 652-3281
Monroe - (734) 242-9409
Parma - (517) 531-3786
Union Pier - (616) 469-3150

Some History - St. Julian Wine Company: Eighty One Years Young

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Our St. Julian Pictorial


Entering St. Julian Winery	The tour and tasting people at St. Julian's were very helpful!	St. Julian's Winery in the early years.


A very large membrane press.	Large tanks for processing wine.


St Jullian's winery is also starting to use 100% Michigan Oak barrels for some of their production!!		Their wines have won many medals in the past.

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Red Wine Raspberry Sorbet - Serving size 6 (Recipe is re-printed with permission from St. Julian's Website)

This recipe won the dessert division in a local newspaper recipe contest with St. Julian Red wine as the secret ingredient.

3 Cups Raspberries, fresh or frozen
1 ¼ cups St. Julian Village Red or Simply Red
1 ½ Tablespoons fresh lemon juice
¾ cup sugar
½ cup whipping cream

Place all ingredients in a food processor fitted with a steel blade and process until smooth. Freeze in an ice cream maker. Let set in refrigerator 15-20 minutes, before serving.

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Whitefish with Lemon Caper Wine Sauce - Serves 4 (Recipe is re-printed with permission from St. Julian's Website)
.25 cup flour
2 T olive oil
.5 tsp salt
.5 tsp pepper
4 6-ounce whitefish fillets

Sauce
.5 cup St. Julian Simply White Wine
.25 cup drained capers
3 T butter
.25 cup lemon juice
2 T chopped fresh parsley
1 T chopped fresh thyme

Pour flour, salt and pepper on plate. Coat the fish on both sides with mixture. Heat olive oil in large skillet on medium high heat. Add fish and cook on both sides until lightly browned. Transfer fish to a platter and cover with foil.

In a small skillet put the wine, capers, butter, lemon juice, parsley and thyme. Cook on medium heat until liquid is reduced by half, around 4 minutes. Spoon this sauce over fish and serve.

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