posted 2 years ago
i recently foraged some wild grapes from up here in the north east.
i did not take very much as i find i dont like them as much as the wild california grapes i used to forage. both have distinctly tangy wild/ feral fruit taste to them, but i find the california ones to be a much better and sweeter flavor. compared to your grocery store grape, they arent really what anyone would call "sweet" but the vitus californica has the best taste, and a subtler sweetness, than any other wild grape i have tried.
and even with all that, theres ways to process them and make stuff with them that can greatly improve the flavor. so i couldve taken oddles and oddles of them...i saw quite a few wild grapes all over upstate new york, but did take home a small bag, mostly i was thinking of the seeds. i'm not in the right mindset to be doing a bunch of processing and preserving or making anything out of them right now.