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I live in a US wine producing region... there are a few people in the area who produce non-grape wines or non-commercial grape varietal wines as hobby projects.
by poulsbohemian 4y ago
I live in a US wine producing region... there are a few people in the area who produce non-grape wines or non-commercial grape varietal wines as hobby projects. Strawberry wine in particular is memorable - a bit like rose; very nice on a summer day. I guess what I'd say about these wines is that they often simply don't fit our norms for wine. For example, when people come to my area they are either looking for wines that are refreshing to counter our hot weather, or wines that are big bodied and stand up against food. The non-grape wines are seldom refined to the degree that they fit traditional American wine drinker's tastes and expectations. In our area, many wines are > $50+/bottle, some $100+/bottle, and it's really hard to convince a consumer to pay that for a strawberry or cherry wine, thus they get sidelined as toy projects and thus forgotten about as legitimate wines.
- terryf 4y agoYou may very well be correct that it could be possible to make very good wine from other fruit but there's cultural stigma attached and the process isn't as well developed. In my country it's cold enough for grapes to not really grow well and there are some tiny farms that make and sell fruit wine and they suffer from exactly what you describe - it's very expensive and not well refined. If you go to one of these places and have a nice experience tasting then you may even come away thinking that it was surprisingly good, but then you take a bottle home and it just tastes like fruit juice compared to good grape based wines...
- poulsbohemian 4y agoAre people making ice wine wherever you are?
- terryf 4y agoNor really as the grapes that grow are rather small and give relatively little juice. But of course maybe there is some small place that does...