Anyone else love wine?

[Spartan]

If any of you are fans of small wineries and are travelling anywhere in the States, I believe every state has some wineries to explore. This is a great way to discover small quantity wines that you can't get in your local store.

I enjoy traveling to the different wineries to find the unique wines they produce. I recently picked up a blackberry wine and a spiced apple wine from a West Virginia winery that are very good.

It's my understanding that North Dakota (my former place of residence) is one state without wineries. It's a climate thing. On the other hand it's great for sugar beets, potatoes, flax, barley (for beer), wheat, sunflowers, rapeseed (canola), and many other grains. It is absolutely beautiful to see acres of flax in bloom next to fields of rapeseed in bloom!

There are some nice wineries that we've visited on the west side of Michigan, my birth state.

[davedove]

It's my understanding that North Dakota (my former place of residence) is one state without wineries. It's a climate thing. On the other hand it's great for sugar beets, potatoes, flax, barley (for beer), wheat, sunflowers, rapeseed (canola), and many other grains. It is absolutely beautiful to see acres of flax in bloom next to fields of rapeseed in bloom!

There are some nice wineries that we've visited on the west side of Michigan, my birth state.

They don't have many, no doubt due to the climate, but there is at least one - Maple River Winery. At least it was still in business a couple of months ago. They were announcing the release of Lilac wine on November 1st, 2008.

It's a shame I don't live near there. That is a wine I would like to try.

[Spartan]

They don't have many, no doubt due to the climate, but there is at least one - Maple River Winery. At least it was still in business a couple of months ago. They were announcing the release of Lilac wine on November 1st, 2008.

It's a shame I don't live near there. That is a wine I would like to try.

That may be a new winery. I'll do some checking. Our son and his family live in Bismarck.