Pointe of View Winery

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Pointe of View Winery
Location Burlington, North Dakota, United States
Appellation North Dakota wine
Founded 2002
first Vintage 2002
Key people Jeff & Diana Peterson, Ken & Cindy Eggleston
Website http://www.povwinery.com

The Pointe of View Winery is the first federally licensed and bonded winery in North Dakota, the last state of the United States to have a federally licensed winery. This marks the first time when there is at least one federally licensed and bonded winery in all 50 states of the Union.[1] The winery is located in the north-central part of North Dakota, between Burlington and Des Lacs.

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[edit] History

The owners of the winery (the Petersons and the Egglestons) experimented for many years making wines for their own consumption. The winery is the "fruit of their labors".

[edit] Honor

Their rhubarb wine (no vintage) received a bronze medal in the 2006 American Wine Society Commercial Wine Competition[2].

[edit] Wines

Although North Dakota is often thought of as a climate that can not produce grapes, there are a number of vinyards in the state. In addition to grapes, the winery also uses a wide variety of other fruits for their wines which include GrapeRhubarb, Cherry, Apple, Elderberry, Blackcurrant, Plum, Chokecherry, Strawberry, and Juneberry.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ http://www.atf.gov/pub/alctob_pub/at_news/july_2002/page2.htm, "A Very Good Year for Vitners", accessed August 3, 2007
  2. ^ http://www.americanwinesociety.com/web/downloads/2006CWCresults.pdf, accessed 23 June 2007
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