Petoskey Wine Region planner / Bay Shore
Spare Key Winery
On Upper Bay Shore Road between Petoskey and Charlevoix, the natural hinge stop if you are running the whole shoreline in one day. Everything is estate grown and bottled, there is a covered porch, and dogs are welcome inside as well as out. Closed Mondays.
The basics
- Where: 06872 Upper Bay Shore Road, Charlevoix, MI 49720
- Hours: Tue-Thu 1pm-6pm, Fri 12pm-6pm, Sat 11am-7pm, Sun 12pm-5pm
- Pours: wine
- Plan on about 40 minutes
- Food: light bites
- Phone: (231) 237-4785
- Website: www.sparekeywinery.com/
- Current member of the Petoskey Wine Region trail, checked 2026-09-18
Hours checked September 18, 2026.
Nearest other tasting stops
- Gypsy Distillery, 3.5 miles straight line (Petoskey)
- Rudbeckia Winery & Burnt Marshmallow Brewstillery, 4.5 miles straight line (Petoskey)
- Blu Dot Farm & Vineyard, 4.5 miles straight line (Charlevoix)
- Mammoth Distilling, Bay Harbor, 4.9 miles straight line (Bay Harbor)
Worth pairing with
- Horton Bay, 4.9 miles straight line. The general store and the crossroads Hemingway wrote into the Nick Adams stories, on the back road between Walloon Lake and Charlevoix.
- Mount McSauba Recreation Area, 6.5 miles straight line. Dune and forest trails above the Lake Michigan beach on the north edge of Charlevoix, with a real overlook at the top.
- Magnus Park Beach, 7.1 miles straight line. City park beach west of downtown, quieter than the state park and a good stone-hunting stretch in the shallows.
Distances are straight line from the map coordinates, not drive distance. Build the actual route on the planner, which uses real roads.
Built by Chris Izworski, a Michigan wine-country visitor and trip-tool builder. We return to Michigan wine country often; our aim is a wine day with unhurried stops, a sensible drive, and room to explore. Winery information comes from the published source records, not from a claim that we personally visited or tasted at every stop. More tools are at the Tools hub.