Sweetgrass Farm Winery & Distillery

Beautiful winery with nice hiking trails. Highly recommend a visit and tasting, cranberry Apple wine is classic Maine in a bottle, spectacular! I have not found their wine outside of their Union and Portland locations.

This is nice stop on the wine trail of maine. It’s a lovely littlt farm with their own distillery inside. They make not only wine, but their own spirits, including gin and rum. It’s $ 2.50 for 5 sample of your choice. The blueberry boujoulas was wonderful, fruity with a slightly dry finish. I loved all three of the smashes, cranberry, blueberry and rhubarb. They have lots of things to looks at including, all the ingredients for different types of gin, including juniper and berries. They even have an old truck inside. There are lots of sheep to awwww over in the yard. It was sad not to be able to try them all, but reason to take another trip.

Great tasting for $ 2.50! Fruit wines and spirits. Delicious gin and apple wines. You can pack a picnic to eat on the grounds and there is a trail through some fields and the woods if you want to take a walk. Really enjoyed our trip!

Drive the extra miles, but get thee to this hidden gem!
We were among the last visitors of the 2014 season. I can tell you that the Bodine’s were wonderful hosts, letting us wander the winery, look over the distillery, and for a modest fee, sample five of their wines or liquors.
Now, after sharing several rounds around our fireplace as winter sets in, I repeat: get thee to Sweetgrass and leave with at least a bottle of their Three Crows Rum and Backriver Gin. Both these spirits are unique and worth keeping on the top shelf of your bar.
Three Crows Rum was true to the colonial heritage of rum distilling; fermented and distilled ‘over the Maine winter’. It has hints of smooth caramel and a great nose, perhaps due to a brief aging in bourbon barrels. This is not your silver rum found in those coconut drinks, nor would you want to drink Three Crows that way…
Backriver Gin also honors local production by using Maine botanicals, including blueberries (!). Taking pure spirits from a traditional pot still, the Bodines infuse botanicals in the old Dutch genever fashion. Even though there are blueberries in the infusion, they seem to add only the memories of a Maine summer and remain restrained to the juniper and spices.
We cannot wait for the winery to reopen in May.

Charming and picturesque, such a beautiful view all around and the drive out from the coast is beautiful as well! Very friendly staff and the wines are superb! Tasting is very reasonable and you keep the stemless wine glass! Well worth our 30 minute drive! A must visit place for locals and visitors to the area! Oh and I must add that their wines and spirits are made with Maine fruits, no grape wines here, and the cranberry mash is superb as well as the Bluejolais!

My wife and I went to Sweetgrass Farm and it was fantastic! The tasting was $ 2.50 per person and you got to sample 5 selections and keep a cute glass. Who can beat that?
The selections between wine and spirits were outstanding. While we were there, the owner was conducting the samplings and he was great. The experience from top to bottom was fantastic!
We look forward to the day they add whiskey to their mix.
My only suggestion add a few more signs to help find the place.
GO– you will be glad you did.

Go. It’s beautiful. It’s delicious. We got the homemade vanilla, gin (amazing!!!), and some wine to bring to Thanksgiving – including a sparkling. Beautiful area. Off the beaten path but worth the drive. Oh and they have a male and female peacock as pets! The children in the family help design the labels. Support a small Maine company! Only $ 2.50 for the ability to taste 6 and you get to keep the glass. :)

No grape wines here – but excellent wines and liquors made from Maine’s own local Cranberries, Blueberries, and Maple. It’s nestled in a breathtakingly beautiful hillside – we came on a sunny day and it was incredible. This would make for a great rainy day activity, too. $ 2.50 buys you 6 tastes and a glass for keeps!

This was our second visit to Sweetgrass. We enjoyed it four years ago and wanted to see what they were up to these days. We weren’t disappointed. They charge you a small fee to sample, but you get to keep the glass. I’m not a fan of very sweet wines, so I passed on sampling those, but my husband enjoyed them an bought a few bottles. I’m not a gin or brandy girl, but walked out of there with a bottle of each! I really enjoyed the maple brandy. I do recommend not going there on an empty stomach after going to another winery. The spirits will hit you hard! LOL. My husband had to finish my samples.

Sweetgrass was one of the places we stopped during out trip to Maine and loved this place and the wine! I always hunting for sweet wine (I’m German) and they had the most awesome Peach Wine & Blueberry Smash… had to take several bottles of each home. They also had lots of other wines which were wonderful. The hostess there friendly but a little overwhelmed with many «visitors» and could have used some help.
They charged you a nominal fee (under $ 3 for 4 tastings) and you get to keep your wine glass with their logo on it which i thought was cool.
Definitely recommend this place!
Just found out that their shipper only ships to certain states so don’t assume you can order more online. you may have to buy what you want! ASK if they ship to your state!

Along with the other local winery (Savage Oakes), as well as a handful of local fromageries: Appleton Creamery and Crooked Face Creamery, Sweetgrass offered up samples of their wines and spirits on Father’s Day.
Open from May until December you can drop by for a sampling ($ 2.50 for 6 tastes and the stemless glass is yours).
We sampled the «Bleujolais» and the Peach Wine — which would make an excellent granita and then moved on to their port (aka «smash») offerings. The maple smash invoked cozy images of après-​ski sipping by a roaring fire whereas the blueberry smash would be a sweet ending to any summer meal in lieu of blueberry pie.
My family, lovers of gin, was most interested in trying out the Back River Gin. Sipped neat it offers a multi-​dimensional, highly botanical taste. And it is extremely refreshing when a bit of tonic is added. We ended up picking up a bottle for later.
The final sample was reserved for the Three Crow Rum which was quite nice, but not as exciting at the gin.
Definitely worth a visit next time you find yourself in Vacationland (or if you can’t make it up, pester your local liquor store until they order some of that Back River Gin!).