Toast of the town

Raise your glasses – the Winterport Winery has reopened for spring with several new additions, including an upstairs art gallery and two seasonal wines: Spring Fever, an apple-strawberry blend; and Orchard Blush, an apple-blueberry blend. The winery is located at the junction of Routes 1A and 69 in Winterport. Hours are 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For information, call 223-4500.

Wine weekend

Oenophiles can relax in vintage fashion at the Samoset Resort’s Wine Extravaganza, April 26-27 in Rockport. The highlight of the event is a black-tie-optional wine dinner on Saturday, featuring six Pine Ridge selections paired with a menu prepared by chefs Eric Delano and Josh Gamage. Weekend packages, including dinner at Marcel’s on Friday night, the wine dinner and a wine seminar on Saturday, two nights’ lodging and Sunday brunch, cost $109 per person, based on double occupancy, excluding tax and gratuity. The dinner alone costs $95 per person, excluding tax and gratuity. For information or reservations, call (800) 341-1650 or visit www.samoset.com.

Book it!

Friends of the EMTC Library will hold a fund-raising festival of edible books, called BOOKS2EAT2002, from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday, April 25, at Rangeley Hall on the Eastern Maine Technical College campus in Bangor. Anyone can contribute an edible book, including culinary arts and fine arts students, chefs and caterers in Penobscot, Piscataquis, Hancock and Waldo counties. If you come with an edible book, you’ll get in free. Admission costs $5 for everyone else, and that includes high tea and refreshments made by students in EMTC’s culinary arts program. For information, call 973-8227 or visit www.colophon.com/ediblebooks/ where you’ll see examples of other edible books, such as the pictured “Letters from the Grave” by Linda Aiello of Santa Monica, Calif.

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