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Wine? In Alaska?

You betcha.

Using the natural bounty of wild berries AND hardy grapes to make great tasting ice wines -- Alaska remains the last great frontier of wine making in America.

With a short growing season to be sure, wine pioneers make the most of it. So if you're visiting following a particularly cold spring and summer, don't be surprised to find different home-grown wines on the menu as different fruit crops survive from year to year despite the weather!

A bit of the grape (or the berry) is just what's needed on those long dark Alaskan nights, and local wine makers are heeding the call.

More about Alaskan wine around the Web:

Bear Creek Winery - Homer, Alaska is the home of this winery offering a wide range of local fruit and berry wines as well as grape wines from imported juice Their lodging section, Bear Creek Winery Suites, gives you some spectacular views of a glacier and Kachemak Bay.

Alaska Berries - Check out blueberry, strawberry, blueberry, rhubarb, and more at the only winery in Alaska that offers authentic home-grown wines.