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Our Visit To Orchard Country Winery In Door County
here are so many things to In addition to a winery and fresh
do and places to go in Door Door County cherries (when in
County that it is hard to season), the main market building
pick what to do. There never on the grounds offers many
seems to be enough time to do different specialty food items as
everything. There's boating, well as fresh baked pies. Also
golfing, a nature center, several offered are scenic trolley tours
parks, biking, hiking, shopping, of the area and tours of the
eating (one of my favorite things winery. Other seasonal activities
to do!), and a host of other at the orchard include horse
things to do and see in Door drawn sleigh rides, haunted
County. Because I enjoy Door hayrides, and a winter wine fest.
County so much I wanted to share
some of my activities and
experiences there. One of those When my husband, my oldest grown
was a visit to Lautenbach's son, and I stopped at the winery
Orchard Country Winery and it was later in the afternoon in
Market. the middle of the week. The last
winery tour for the day had
If you like wine, a really fun already ended. We were
thing to do is to visit several disappointed to have missed out
of the wineries in Door County on the tour, but instead we
(Door Peninsula Winery is another headed to the wine tasting bar in
popular Door County Winery). the main building. At the tasting
Orchard Winery, located on Hwy bar we were given a list of all
42, just south of Fish Creek, the wines offered by the winery.
Wisconsin was one of our stops There are over 30. Complimentary
during a fall trip to Door tasting of up to 8 wines is
County. offered to all patrons over 21
years of age.
called Swedish Lingonberry is
After mulling over the choices imported from Sweden.
for a few minutes we started
sipping wines. The winery Other wines that we tasted and
specializes in fruit wines, really enjoyed were the Autumn
particularly cherry, because of Harvest wine, a cranberry apple
the great cherry growing climate wine; Sweet Cherry wine, a nicely
in Door County. They also offer sweet wine made with Door County
one homegrown grape wine made cherries; Strawberry Lyte, not a
with red grapes grown on the diet wine but a delicious
winery grounds, a wine named lighter-tasting wine; Blackberry
Audrey Grace. It is a dry wine, a Blend, a very good wine that
new offering from the winery. The tasted like sweet blackberries;
grapevines were planted just a and Red Raspberry Lyte, another
few years ago to see how they lighter-tasting wine that's a
would perform in the cool, short combination of white grapes and
growing season of Door County. raspberries.
Although the winery specializes We were told the top selling wine
in fruit wines, they have other at the winery is the Blackberry
offerings made with various Blend. The number two seller is
grapes, but those wines are not the Red Raspberry Lyte. The
made on the premises because winery's best-selling cherry wine
those fruits are not native to is their Cherry Blossom wine.
the area. Some of the other wines
are made on the premises but with After tasting several wines we
juice bought just for that headed over to the bottled wine
purpose. For instance, our section of the store and stocked
hostess at the wine bar told us up on our favorites. Back home,
the juice for their semi dry wine we'll be able to enjoy the wine
and reminisce about our trip to Door County.
About the Author:
Dorrie Ruplinger is a featured writer for http://www.doorcountycountry.com. Visit the web site for more information on Door County Wisconsin including places to eat and places to stay.
Source: www.isnare.com
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