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A group of healthy and sustainable lifestyle advocates in Davao City is now very active in its promotion towards making the city the fruit wine capital of the the Philippines. The group, called the Consumer Action for Sustainable and Healthy Lifestyle (CASH-L) Network Incorporated, has been actively involved in the ...
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I love Black Currants! I must say that they are one of my favorite fruits to make wine with. The black currant is a small shrub native to northern Europe and Asia. The fruit is an edible berry 1 cm in diameter and almost black in color. When ripe, these ...
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When life gives you cantaloupes, cantaloupe wine can’t be far behind. A cheerful pourer named Tammy told us the story as we sipped one of Chateau Laurinda’s more flamboyant concoctions on a recent sunny autumn afternoon. We had ventured out of our vacation cabin in the hills near Sparta, close ...
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A group of mango growers in the Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh are developing a mango wine. The products will be hitting the consumer market in the next two years. According to a report in The Financial Express, about 500 farmers have registered with Galla Foods Pvt. Ltd, a member ...
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There is a lot of new things happening in the fruit wine world these days and over the next while, I will be going through some of those exciting new developments. Fruit wines and the “exotics” are really starting to gain ground and the world’s wine portfolios and this is ...
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They’re tough; they’re salt-and-snow resistant — and they’re everywhere, free for the picking. This just might be a vintage year for rose hips, the red fruit that sets after a rose’s bloom. Sarah Heusner, a Burlington resident and student of ethnobotony at the University of Vermont, wants to find out. ...
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CHIPPEWA FALLS – Joe Wynimko takes a pass on making wine from grapes. He’d rather make wine from rhubarb, dandelions, pumpkins and strawberries. “It’s basically all fruits,” Wynimko said. “My niche is the specialty fruit wines. I don’t have a vineyard, I have an orchard. The rhubarb is all out ...
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London, Ontario wine lovers who want to buy local don’t have to travel all the way to the Niagara peninsula or Essex County. There are small grape and fruit wineries blossoming all over the north shore of Lake Erie and many more are ready to open. The Ontario Viniculture Association ...
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Maine wine and spirit makers face an uphill battle to win market share, but they are welcoming the challenge. C.C. Peet of Cellardoor Winery in Lincolnville, Steve Linne of Blacksmiths Winery in South Casco, Bob Bartlett of Bartlett’s Winery in Gouldsboro and Bob Harkins of Cold River Vodka in Freeport ...
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