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The media is full of neat articles on fruit wines these days. Obviously the time of the year. This particlular one written by Brice Stump of the Daily Times in Del mar is about a local winery thinking outside the box and producing something totally different. I have never made ...
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Article by Will Buss of bnd.com Jody and Allen Justus have long enjoyed a bottle of homemade wine. Their good friend Arnold Schorr had always made it. But after he died seven years ago, the couple wondered how they would quench their thirst for sweet fruit wine. Jody decided to ...
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When he’s not busy as co-CEO of Bishops’ Orchards, or as vice-chairman of the Board of Education, Keith Bishop is likely finding time to turn apples (and peaches, pears, strawberries, and raspberries) into wine. Now, he’s about to unveil the second annual Shoreline Wine Festival, Aug. 16 and 17. Keith ...
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Cherry, berry, even rhubarb wines are moneymakers across the country by Richard Paul Hinkle Fruit and berry wines make good business as a supplement to grape wines or on their own, for wineries across North America. The major differences in winemaking are that fruit wines usually lack tartaric acid, they ...
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Fruit wine in Saskatchewan, the bread basket of Canada? Why not? I know of at least two more fruit wineries in the province and one more that is due to open its doors mid-next year. Here is a great article by Ron Petrie: Eyebrows no doubt cocked at the aspirations ...
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I started my fruit winemaking career in British Columbia over 11 years ago and a lot has changed since then. Back then, fruit wines had a terrible reputation and it was a hard sell even trying to convince people to try them. Now things are a lot different and people ...
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The following article reminds the days when I made wine as an amateurs, making wine our of dandelions, rhubarb and what ever berry seemed to grow in our backyard or road sides… When it come to amateur wine competitions, a lot of friendly jockeying for the top spot is part ...
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Its a busy time at fruit wineries all over the Northern Hemisphere these days. Not only is it busy because wines are being produced from the plentiful fruit being harvested in the summer months but also busy with sales to the public and packaging wines ready to bottle and ship ...
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To anyone out there looking at setting up a fruit winery or making fruit wines on a commercial basis, there are many issues to deal with and be up to date on. In this blog, I will periodically post some of these subjects online for the general good of the ...
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