Your Favorite Obscure Fruit for Country Wines

Blueberries, blackberries, pomegranates, black currants, and elderberries are all popular fruits for country (non grape) wines. But what's your favorite "unusual" fruit for wine making?

Greg

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This cranberry juice from Costco is looking promising.... Funny thing, Costco sells Ocean Spray and their own, theirs uses sugar and is 30% juice, OS is that high fructose corn sugar and 27% juice.

Joe

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Joe Sallustio

I have bought "juice" from COSTCO to make wine. Just make sure its 100% juice. I think one brand is Adam and .... I have made Apple Pear Passion Fruit, Cran Raspberry, Pomegranate Black Cherry just naming a few. Tom

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Tom

Quince.

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Pavel314

Ok, here is a weird one and not really a fruit, but I once made wine onion wine. It turned out surprisingly good and unless I told people what it was made out of they enjoyed it.

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All time favorite wine is rhubarb.

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John Stobbs

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Steve Peek

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Dave Allison

'nuther for rhubarb. Good wine!

Steve Oregon

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spud

Not sure exactly how to describe it, but if there is interest I would post the recipe.

How would you describe it? Can you compare it to any other wine?

Greg

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Is it one from Jack's website? You've piqued my interest.

Is the wine light or dark, sweet or dry? Does it remind you of any other beverage?

Greg

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greg

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I never heard of it. I had to look it up in Wikipedia. Since it's related to apples and pears, I would assume a Quince wine would be like a cider or perry. How would you describe it?

Greg

The best I can do to describe the taste is that it is somewhat like apple or pear but with a hint of citrus and very fragerant, like a subtle perfume.

Paul

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Pavel314

Wild cherry, wild persimmon. You've got to let the persimmons fall and fight the possums for them. My wife has a great wild persimmon cookie recipe also although we don't have it with us now.

Dick

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Dick Heckman

Joe Sallustio wrote in news:b96442af-68b9-4b66- snipped-for-privacy@i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com:

A few years ago I made some wine from Ocean Spray cranberry juice. My clarifier pulled out a lot of the color, leaving behind a blush. It ended up still having a decent cranberry taste. I could have sworn the juice was just HCF with cranberry juice mixed in and some preservative the yeast overpowered.

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Adam Preble

I make a very good raspberry, and am playing with pyment. One of my best wines was an elderberry white grape mix, fermented together.

Mary

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MARY SCHAER

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