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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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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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A great event for fruit wine everywhere just happened recently at the Pacific Northwest Summit wine competition. For the first time, a fruit wine wines a “Best of Region” award in a major wine competition. Forbidden Fruit Winery with their “Pomme Desiree, Iced Apple Wine, Similkameen Valley, British Columbia” won ...
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By: MONIQUE BEECH Interesting twist this week in the three-year battle waged by many fruit wineries to allow them to sell their products at farmers’ markets. Ontario Agriculture Minister Leona Dombrowski said she’s willing to entertain the idea of a trial run to see if selling fruit wines at market ...
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Meet 34-year-old local entrepreneur Makiko Yamashita from Kobe, Japan. Makiko has been living in the United States since 1999 and is freshly graduated from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in Chicago. Traveling, business smarts and networking have inspired her to incorporate her exotic fruit wine business, Radee ...
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PAYSON, Utah – Rick Johnson is the archetype of an American cowboy, with a dress code based entirely on leather and denim. He wears the classic black boots and a wide-brimmed cowboy hat at all times, even though you are much more likely to find him out in the hills ...
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Written by Shelley Boettsher, the Calgary Herald wine columnist Good new for Alberta’s own Field Stone Fruit winery — the winery’s products are now available at the Calgary Farmers’ Market. (Ask for a sample at the Field Stone booth near the front doors.) Field Stone has a big list of ...
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Lately I have been pondering the making of pomegranate wines. Normally, my scope of production is larger scale for commercial markets and I know that the potential for well made pomegranate wine is huge. This is true, not only because it can taste great, has an “exotic” attraction to it ...
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