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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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Postponed: Warm Up Wine Down
March 12, 2020 Hello friends, in light of the most recent information from the Maine CDC, we have made what we feel is the responsible decision to postpone opening this weekend to be proactive in...
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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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Announcing Midcoast Curbside Pick-Up and Delivery
Friends, We’ve heard your kind requests for wine, so today, we’re pleased to launch curbside pick-up and delivery here in the Midcoast. We will take orders by phone and email. Our PHONE LINES —...
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SOLD OUT Lincolnville Warehouse Drive-Through
UPDATE: LINCOLNVILLE IS SOLD OUT Friends, so many folks have enjoyed our Portland warehouse drive-through case special, that we knew we had to make it work in Lincolnville, too. This Saturday, April...
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Portland Warehouse Drive-Through
PORTLAND Updated May 2, 2020 This week Friday and Saturday will be first come, first serve from 12:00 – 3:00 pm at our warehouse at 235 Presumpscot Street in Portland. To help us keep things running...
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Mystery May Bouquet
Thank you, friends, new and old, who joined us for our warehouse sales. We hope you are enjoying wines from prior vintages. April Showers of prior vintages on sale bring us May bouquets of a mystery...
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Opening in Lincolnville on June 5th
Dear Friends, I hope you and yours are well. Over the past thirteen years, we have been on a journey together. We have sipped wines, enjoyed sweets and savories, danced, supported our community, won...
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For everything there is a season
Friends, At the end of this month, this chapter of Cellardoor on Thompson’s Point will end. The Point is conceived and designed to gather large numbers of people. Over the past four years, we’ve...
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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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Announcing our Fall Hours
Cellardoor Winery will be open this Friday, October 30th and Saturday, October 31st, by reservation. Email rez@mainewine.com to request a reservation. We will be closed from Sunday, November 1st...
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Holiday Mystery Case
Friends, in our Holiday Mystery Case, you’ll discover a selection of twelve wines, for $120, picked with this season’s celebratory feasts in mind. Roasting a bird to share? We’ve got a wine for that....
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Harvesting the Frontenacs
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Join us for a festive holiday concert with Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.
As a thank you for your patronage this holiday season, we’re offering complimentary tickets to Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.’s Virtual Home For The Holidays concert on December 18, with any purchase in...
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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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Valentine’s Specials
Tis the month of love and if you can’t be with the one you love, love the wine you’re with! WINE SPECIALS In February, in addition to our regularly priced wines, we’re offering wine specials available...
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Case Specials
For those who may like to fill your home wine cellars, basements, or hall closets, we are offering many of our current vintage wines at $120/case prices. No custom mixed cases – but ask about this...
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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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Cellardoor Portland Opening and Lincolnville Case Sale
CELLARDOOR PORTLAND OPENS THURSDAY Thank you for your support while we’ve navigated the past two years; From masking up in our tasting rooms to waiting in lines outside of our warehouse in Portland. A...
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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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Summer Ends with Good Memories, And Even Better Wine Prices
Dear Friends, As Summer quickly winds down, I hope you all have had wonderful times with family and friends. We have loved seeing you in our tasting rooms, enjoying the Lincolnville property, and...
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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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Winter Mystery Case
Our Mystery (wink, wink) Cases are an evolving selection of twelve Cellardoor wines. Our Winter Edition is now available in our tasting rooms or shipped to your door. This case includes: 2017 Bulles...
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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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Food and Wine Pairing with Chef Fernando Ferreira
Join Chef Fernando Ferreira in the Cellardoor Farmhouse Kitchen on Saturday, April 8th, for a special 5 wine/5 bites chef pairing menu! Menu Salmon Pastrami Chicken and Chantilly Pate Spinach Feta...
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Spring Mystery Case
Our $100 Mystery (wink, wink) Cases are an evolving selection of twelve Cellardoor wines. Our Spring Edition is now available in our tasting rooms or shipped to your door. This case includes: Blanc de...
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Experience Cellardoor This Summer
Weekly Happenings In addition to our self-guided tastings, which we offer anytime during regular business hours, we are excited to offer Tours, Food and Wine Pairings, and Hosted Tastings. TOURS...
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Flavors of Spain Winemaker Dinner with Chef Fernando
Inspired by the fabulous flavors of Spain, Chef Fernando has created a four-course menu to savor with our Cellardoor wines. Chef Fernando’s multicultural experiences and passion for creating dishes...
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Sounds of Summer in the Vineyard
Sounds of Summer is a series of casual afternoons under the pavilion in Cellardoor Winery’s vineyard with live music, great food, and award-winning wines. Sounds of Summer July 13 – Stephanie Ryann...
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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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