Dancing Bear Lodge & Appalachian Bistro, Townsend, TN
Michelle LaBorde is Sommelier and Bar Director at Dancing Bear Lodge & Appalachian Bistro in Townsend, TN. Just lately, Dancing Bear Appalachian Bistro was named among the many Finest Superb Eating Eating places within the US by Tripadvisor, partially as a consequence of Michelle’s unbelievable contributions to the beverage program.
Situated simply beside the Smoky Mountain Nationwide Park, Michelle greets visitors from everywhere in the world trying to expertise the great thing about the mountains. Dancing Bear works to welcome their visitors and educate them on this distinctive space, which is a part of Appalachia. As such, Michelle makes use of her unbelievable background and expertise to teach visitors concerning the impression that the world has had on distillation processes. She has curated an archive of whiskey that showcases the contributions Appalachia has made on the business, in addition to bottles that exhibit the completely different phases of distillation within the space; she has additionally constructed a formidable library of unique allocations that has additional elevated the whiskey program at Dancing Bear. She’s additionally a Stage II sommelier (and dealing on Stage III), making use of her levels in fermentation and chemistry to the method of winemaking.
