This Cheap Date has the perfect ingredients: A Maine-grown wines tasting paired with a Maine-island botanicals bath soak. (All you ever have to do is pair a wine tasting with anything, even a community organized pick-up-dog-poop day, and I'd go to it.) On Sunday, May 5, Breakwater Vineyards in Owls Head is teaming up with Dulse & Rogosa, a natural bath and beauty products company on Gotts Island to offer a unique twist on the typical wine tasting. Called "Taste, Make & Take," each person will be able to taste a particular wine, then go into another room and make a bath product from island-gathered botanicals such as rugosa rose petals, wild dulse and Irish moss, balsam needles and bay Leaves as well as natural salts and essences. The cost is $10/person.

"The idea came up because Claire Weinberg, co-owner of Dulse & Rogosa, said she really enjoys taking a hot bath and having a glass of wine," said Breakwater Vineyards co-owner Jeanne Johnson. "For instance, we have a rosé wine called Rosé Rugosa and that would pair perfectly with their rugosa rose hips for a bath soak. It's a little different way than pairing wine with food, but it's just kind of a fun way for us to offer something like this together."

Participants will get to sample four wines and make four different natural bath soaks to take home.

The event takes place at Breakwater Vineyards, 35 Ash Point Drive in Owls Head, from 2 to 4 p.m. Call 207-594-1721 or email info@breakwatervineyards.com for reservations.

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Kay Stephens can be reached at news@penbaypilot.com.