Sweetgrass Winery & Distillery is opening a new tasting room in Kennebunk similar to this one in Portland. Susan Axelrod/file photo
Sweetgrass Farm Winery and Distillery, maker of the award-winning Back River Gin, is expanding to Kennebunk in May.
Owners Keith and Constance Bodine announced they are opening a new tasting room and retail store on May 22 at Maine Art Hill #4, 5 Chase Hill Road, Kennebunk. The new location will be open for business after a 3 p.m. ribbon cutting with the Kennebunk-Kennebunkport-Arundel Chamber of Commerce.
Sweetgrass, founded in 2005, produces wines and spirits with Maine-grown fruits and grains. It was the first distillery in Maine since Prohibition to make a gin, and it also makes a line of fruit wines, rum, whiskey, brandy, bitters and other products.
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