Explore Michigan's diverse wine scene, one of the country's most exciting developing regions

Michiganders have a way of showing their hand. They have a technique - a tradition, really - of lifting their right hand and pressing their left index finger into a spot on their palm to give you, the Michigan-geography-challenged, a lesson in what's where.

The state looks like a mitten (thus the palm, with closed fingers and a slightly extended thumb), sitting solidly in the Midwest and virtually surrounded by massive, freshwater lakes. While you could point to several spots on the mitten to show where vineyards and wineries