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Our Visit To Door Peninsula Winery In Door County Wisconsin
f you like wine, stop at the schoolhouse where our guide
the Door Peninsula Winery told us the building had been
in Carlsville, Wisconsin used as a schoolhouse for 100
the next time you get to Door years, from 1868 to 1968. At one
County. The winery is north of point in time, the school had 60
Sturgeon Bay on Hwy 42. It is students in 8 grades with only 2
located in an old schoolhouse. teachers. The building was
purchased and turned into a
My husband, one of my grown sons, winery in 1974.
and myself stopped there during a
recent trip to Door County. The After being given some history on
evening before we had dined at the building, we were taken to
Shipwrecked in Egg Harbor, the basement of the building,
Wisconsin (also in Door County), which is where the wine is made.
and had been given a coupon for a We saw how the wine was bottled,
free tour of the winery and free the vats it is made in, along
wine tasting. It seemed like too with the barrels it is stored in
good of a deal to pass up. for aging. Along the way we
learned how the fruit juice the
Even if you don't have a coupon winery uses gets turned into
for the tour, it's a bargain at wine. Then we headed back
$2 for each adult. And if you're upstairs to the wine bar to start
not interested in the tour but tasting the wines.
just in the wine tasting, the
wine tasting is free to anyone 21 With over 50 wines being produced
years of age or older. by the winery, it was difficult
deciding which ones to try but we
We decided to take the tour and managed. The winery produces
then taste some of the wines. quite a few fruit wines from
The tour started in the front of apple to blackberry to plum to
cranberry to peach to strawberry, wine jellies, gourmet mustards,
along with their signature cherry and Door Peninsula Wine Cheese
wine which is made with Door Spread which we thought was so
County cherries. The fruits for good that we bought two
some of the other wines come from containers to take home.
other places, such as California,
but all the wine is made at the The large shopping area in the
Door County facility. winery also has hundreds of other
items for sale including wine
The top selling wines at the Door glasses, wine racks, gourmet
County winery are the Strawberry foods, gift baskets, and wine
Zinfandel, Blackberry Merlot, and butlers.
Razzle Dazzle Raspberry. Our
favorites were the Blackberry, In addition to taking home some
Cranberry, and Sparkling Razzle of the winery's cheese spread; we
Dazzle Raspberry. Other wines we bought a mixed case of wine to
liked included the Port Reserve, take with us. And we didn't
a sweet desert wine; Sweet break the bank buying the wine.
Cherry, a sweet wine; White The wines at the winery are a
Christmas, one of the winery's good value. The wines start at
holiday wines; the White around $8 for the fruit wines to
Zinfandel, one of the winery's a little under $30 for some of
signature series wines; and the winery's signature series
Cranbernet, a wine made with a wines.
combination of cranberry and
grape juices. We enjoyed the couple of hours we
spent at the Door Peninsula
The winery also offers several Winery. It was a fun way to
non-wine products including spend part of our afternoon
cherry juice, sparkling juices, during our trip to Door County.
During our next trip we plan to have to offer
visit some of the other wineries (http://www.doorcountycountry.com
in Door County to see what they /shop/doorcountywine).
About the Author:
Dorrie Ruplinger is a featured writer for http://www.doorcountycountry.com. Visit the site for info on Door County WI, Door County wine, & Door County wineries.
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