I thought today I would move away from breweries and highlight a couple of the Maine wineries that we visited.

Dragonfly Farm and Winery was our first winery and it is located in Stetson, Maine, not too far from Bangor.  The winery tasting room was very small and very cozy, located off the main house of the owners and winemakers. As with most of the wineries in Maine, most of the wines were fruit based ones.  Here the most unusual wine was the plum wine which was done in a German style instead of the Japanese style most commonly seen here in the U.S.  Many of the wines were too sweet for my taste but the members of our group who enjoyed the sweeter wines seemed to enjoy them.

Our next stop on that same day was the Winterport Winery which is housed with the Penobscot Brewery.  I actually tasted the beers here because I had a feeling that many of the wine offerings would be too sweet for me, since, once again, they were mostly fruit based. I did try a dry pear, a cabernet sauvignon and a dry blueberry. All were reasonable but nothing stood out as extraordinary.

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series, we visited a total of 6 wineries which resulted in my earning a wine guild hat.  Other wineries to follow in the next entry….