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Event Recap: Live In The Vines
At this year’s Live in the Vines, we welcomed guests for a World Fair inspired afternoon in the Vineyard with carnival games, live music, local foods, brews and of course, Cellardoor wine. This year’s...
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Event Recap: Claw to Tail Lobster Cooking Class
At our Claw to Tail Lobster Cooking Class, guests learned how to make the most of Maine’s beloved lobster at our hands-on class with our friends from Megunticook Market. Folks got their hands dirty...
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Event Recap: Vino al Fresco
Our inaugural Vino Al Fresco was pure magic! Special thanks to the extraordinary talents at Wallace Events for bringing our vision of ‘a meal amongst the vines,’ to life and Trillium Caterers for...
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Event Recap: Under the Maine Sun
At this year’s Under the Maine Sun, we were transported to Cuba! Trillium Caterers prepared an incredible plated dinner, Sean and John Tap Dancers and the wonderfully festive entertainers from Smash...
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Event Recap: Sip, Eat, Dance
At Sip, Eat, Dance, the plan was to do just that. Mission accomplished! Trillium Caterers, Matchmaker Band, Art in Motion Academy of Dance, Wallace Events your excellence allows us to provide...
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Introducing The Buoy, a wine to benefit Habitat for Humanity
Today, we, Cellardoor in partnership with Bangor Savings Bank’s Buoy Local, are proud to announce the introduction of The Buoy, an engagingly fruity, yet crisp and mouthwatering, blend of Semillon,...
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Event Recap: Bistro Night with Tameca Jones
A grey day made way for a temperate sunny sunset in Lincolnville last Friday evening for our fall Bistro Night with Tameca Jones. Trillium Caterers treated guests to a Tex Mex feast, inspired by...
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Video: Crush 2018
Crush begins with L’Acadie blanc A little over a month ago, Crush, the period in time in which we harvest, receive, crush, and begin the winemaking process began. On September 17th, our team and a...
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Event Recap: Pairings at the Point Halloween
On Halloween, we hosted a truly spooktacular Pairings at The Point featuring delectable nibbles from Fire and Company. Thanks to our pals Kristen and Tim from 5iveLeaf Photography for capturing all of...
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Solstice Scallops and Pinot Gris
Tis the season for festive gatherings, and we have just the meal idea for you to share with family and friends. A simple, easy, and decadent risotto, cooked and served with our Pinot Gris, finished...
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Awards: 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
In January we learned Cellardoor wines won 24 awards, including two Best of Class awards, three Double Golds, and five Golds at the San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition (SFCWC). As our Winemaker...
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Great Northwest Wine: Alumni, College Cellars of Walla Walla rock San...
Alumni, College Cellars of Walla Walla rock San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition The 2019 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition generated more critical acclaim for the Pacific Northwest, and...
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A Spring Update
Friends, Here in Maine, the snow is finally melting, the vineyard team is pruning, and the winery team is preparing for an upcoming bottling run. We are reopening our Thompson’s Point tasting room for...
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Event Recap: Taste of Spring
This season of events kicked off with a Taste of Spring cooking class with Chef Kerry Alterio and his fabulous Cafe Miranda team in the farmhouse. The evening’s menu featured courses featuring...
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Event Recap: Illusions Bistro
Magic was in the air at Bistro Night! Shimshi, our visiting illusionist treated guests to a night of wonder, Trillium Catering served a spectacular spread, and 5iveLeaf Photography captured all the...
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The New York Times: 36 Hours in Camden and Rockport, Maine (and Environs)
So honored to be featured among so many local friends in this New York Times Travel feature on Midcoast, Maine. If Maine’s much-debated slogan, “the way life should be,” were a place, the towns of...
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Event Recap: Live in the Vines
At this year’s Live in the Vines, Cellardoor friends new and old joined us in our vineyard for an afternoon of good food, good friends, and good fun! We enjoyed entertainment from Troy Ramey, David...
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Event Recap: Vino Al Fresco
Vino al Fresco is all about the vineyard, food, wine, and fellowship and we couldn’t have asked for a more incredible evening. From the rainbow themed dishes by Trillium Caterers to the weather, Tim...
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Event Recap: Grape Affair
This year’s Gatsby inspired Grape Affair treated guests to an evening of dining and dancing as the sun sets over the vineyard in Lincolnville. Trillium Catering will tantalized our taste buds; Landau...
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Event Recap: Winemaker Dinner
Our inaugural Winemaker Dinner treated guests to an intimate and lavish multi-course, plated dinner designed by Trillium Caterers to showcase our favorite Estate and Artist series wines. The post Event...
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Video: Announcing the release of our first Ice Wine!
As we look forward to the delights of harvest 2019, we proudly share and enjoy ourselves, our newly released, inaugural Ice Wine from our 2018 harvest. A year ago, in mid-November, our team and harvest...
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2019 L’Acadie Blanc Harvest
There are only so many warm and sunny days for growing here in Maine, so a cold, wet, and drawn out Spring season delayed our L’Acadie blanc harvest to October 19th, nearly a month later than we...
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Event Recap: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
There’s no place like our happy place! At our Somewhere Over The Rainbow dinner with Megunticook Market and Catering, a yellow brick road guided guests into the magical, mystical world of OZ. The...
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Harvesting Marquette for Vin Doux Natural
This past Sunday, November 3rd, we picked our Marquette grapes. It was another great volunteer turnout and a beautiful day for picking. Marquette is a cousin of Frontenac and grandson of Pinot noir...
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Event Recap: Halloween Pairings at the Point
At Pairings at The Point Halloween, guests, dressed in their best, enjoyed an evening of pairings featuring all things delicious and delectable by Fire and Company. The post Event Recap: Halloween...
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Recipe: Pizza Beans
Pizza beans are a cozy, comfortable, unfussy one pot meal meant to share. “This is a refrigerator velcro kinda dish. I’ve never made it the same way twice. ” – Devon Salisbury Inspired by Smitten...
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Video: Making Maine Wine
This fall we were thrilled to host Teagan Wright, host of the Maine CW’s From Away, to show him how we grow, harvest, sort, ferment, and most importantly drink Maine made wine! It takes a team of...
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Harvesting Before Dawn
On December 1st, 2019, our team and a hardy crew of volunteers picked our Frontenac blanc and Frontenac gris before the sun rose in Lincolnville. The first pull from the press reads 37.9 brix (a good...
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Recent Award Winners
BEST OF CLASS 2016 Monti al Mare (unreleased) 2016 Cabernet Franc (unreleased) DOUBLE GOLD 2018 Unoaked Chardonnay (unreleased) GOLD 2018 Theron (unreleased) 2018 Ice Wine (sold out) 2018 Perfect...
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A note from Bettina: Something to Look Forward To
Friends, As I write this, I am thinking of all of you, your lives, your families. We thought carefully about the tone for this note, and Devon captured it perfectly with “people need something to look...
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2020 Harvest of L’Acadie Blanc
This year our L’Acadie blanc harvest was larger than anticipated and although it was a long and arduous day, the quality of the grapes was exceptional! The chemistry and flavors are perfect and it is...
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Harvesting Marquette
With the help of our harvest volunteers, we picked about 4 tons of Marquette, a cousin of Frontenac and grandson of Pinot noir. First developed in 1989 by the University of Minnesota, Marquette...
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Harvesting the Frontenacs
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Announcing a Cellardoor Pop-Up in Kennebunk
For the next two weekends, Cellardoor is popping up in Kennebunk to join the first annual Cottage Crawl at Morning Walk in Lower Village. We’re thrilled to join this festive celebration. You’ll find...
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Maine Wine For Maine Needs
Today we’re pleased to announce a partnership with National Distributors to donate $1 from each bottle sold to the non-profit, MaineNeeds.org. This fundraising effort begins immediately and goes...
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San Francisco Chronicle: Competition winners highlight lesser known U.S. wine...
We’re delighted to be included in this recent article published in the San Francisco Chronicle. When you’re evaluating nearly 5,700 wines from more than 1,000 U.S. and Mexico wineries, it might be...
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Reopening in Portland
Friends, we have news. We’ve moved and we opening a tasting room at 127 Middle Street in the Old Port in Portland! We are hoping to open in June. Stay tuned and follow Cellardoor Portland on Instagram...
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Forbes: The World’s Best Red Wines From The 2021 San Francisco International...
Honored to have our 2018 Malbec listed among the best red wines at the 2021 San Francisco International Wine Competition, as featured in Forbes. The judges described our Malbec as, Rich aromas of...
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Cellardoor Wines win big at the 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition
We are proud to announce at the 2022 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition, the largest wine competition of American wines in the world, three Cellardoor wines won Best of Class, and six won gold...
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A note from Bettina: My 15 Year Anniversary
Dear Cellardoor Friends, February 15, 2007, is just a day for nearly everyone. For me, it is so much more. It is one of a handful of my life’s big dates, of which some have been full of joy and others...
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Harvest 2022
This year we harvested the vineyard in a day! With the help of an incredible crew of harvest volunteers, we harvested our entire vineyard – 71 rows of grapes, which filled about 23 bins and equals...
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Attractive from the first whiff: Our 2019 Riesling a “Best Buy” according to...
Best buy! For the second time in three vintages, Maine winemaker Aaron Peet uses Riesling to add to Cellardoor’s Platinum total, now 18. He came to appreciate Pacific Northwest grapes as a student in...
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2017 Sewell: A wine for rustic meals and good conversation
Our 2017 Sewell is a 2022 Critic’s Challenge Platinum winner the highest level awarded to only 56 of the 1,000+ submissions. Critics Challenge is among the most important and respected wine and...
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Harvest 2023
The 2023 season, one of the harshest in memory, tested these vines to their max – a deep winter freeze that would have killed most varieties, a post bud break hard freeze on May 17th that wiped out...
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Maine Grown Late Harvest Wins in San Francisco
Exciting news! Our very own Lincolnville grown and produced Late Harvest wine clinches the title of The Best Late Harvest at the esteemed 2023 San Francisco International Wine Competition. Notably,...
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Seasons of the Vineyard: Pruning
With winter’s chill gradually giving way to the promise of spring’s warmth, it’s time for our team to ready the vines for their inevitable resurgence from winter hibernation. And what does this...
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2021 Buoy White is Best of Class in 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Competition
More exciting awards news! Buoy White, our Chenin Blanc and Semillon blend wins Best of Class at the 2023 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. The San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition is the...
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Record Breaking 2024 L’Acadie Blanc Harvest
Over 50 volunteers joined us bright and early this past Saturday at our Lincolnville vineyard for the season’s first record breaking 2024 L’Acadie Blanc Harvest. Thanks to their hard work, we picked a...
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Marquette Harvest leads to First Estate Red
On Saturday, October 5th, over 60 volunteers joined our team to hand-pick another third of the vineyard, gathering about 14,000 lbs of Marquette, Frontenac Blanc, and Frontenac Gris. With one-third of...
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Frontenac Blanc Late Harvest 2024
On November 9, Cellardoor completed the final harvest of our Frontenac Blanc grapes for a much-anticipated late-harvest wine, crafted only when a season allows for perfect ripening. Frontenac Blanc...
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