What Are Your Favorite Fruit Wines?

Hi Friends,

Just wondering what delicious, interesting, or peculiar fruit wines you've tried/made.

I've tried strawberry, plum, raspberry, and blackberry wines and some blends with grapes and a bunch of random other stuff.

The plum was probably my favorite of them, but I haven't a lot of experience and I don't do a lot of drinking.

However, I'm thinking about things to make and share with friends as my fruitful bounty increases over the next few years.

Preserves are another one I'm curious about.

What are your favorite preserves/jellies/jams/fruit butters? What are your favorite fruits to use, what are your favorite blends, have you made many yourself or have you mostly purchased them? What are your best recipes and preferred brands?

I've had tomato wine before and my cousin made some blueberry wine a while back.

I'm not a exactly a connoisseur, but I thought both were very good.

I've heard tomato wine is pretty good.

Blueberry wine sounds good. Can you describe what it tasted like?

Chance Lunceford wrote:
Blueberry wine sounds good. Can you describe what it tasted like?

Not sure (thinking)  .....not 'dry' or terribly sweet.

It was....  shall I say, "balanced" ?  

...or maybe "Better than expected"?  (ha-ha)  


Overall, I thought it was going to be a waste of perfectly good bluegerries, but was pleasantly surprised that I was wrong.  ;-)

So it appears rhubarb can be grown in Payson, probably thanks to the cooler weather provided by the nearby Wasatch range.  This is mentioned because I recall doing a blind taste test of whites at the Oregon Wine and Seafood Festival back in the 1980s and was assuming all offerings were highlighting Oregon's grape wine industry.  Totally surprised that one of the best tasting wines was a rhubarb wine!  I was hoping to give makeing some a whirl after moving back to the northern plains and was pleased that the farmstead we bought already had a stand.  Then one of the pigs got into it, destroyed the roots, and my efforts to replant have failed. Who fails with rhubarb?!!!   :-?  (hangs head).  But worth a try if you can find some sources for the recipe.

Edited to add:  Pear wine is pretty good as well......

Blackberry, strawberry, cherry, peach... I don't like shiraz, or most reds. I like a lightly sweet wine - not cloying, but not dry, either. Riesling is good, some rosés.

I used to make a fair bit of mead. Probably the best I've ever made was a kumquat melomel, made with fruit donated from a friend's tree & frozen for a month. Someday I will make it again.
Freshly-juiced pomegranate arils combined with elderberry syrup and good quality dark-colored honey will produce a dessert mead identical in quality to a commercial California Zinfandel.
How did your blackberry wine come out? That's one I had less success with.

Out of all imaginable fruits and all kinds of grapes, and 20 years plus doing it, hands down, blueberry is my all time favorite!  Made from dead ripe berries and without any added sugar or water.  
    One of my more surprising successes was a batch made from a bunch of green candied pineapple that was old and being tossed at the place I worked, briefly boiled in some water.  The wine was a weird green color but oh my! and plenty strong!

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Bordeaux and Burgundy in France, Tuscany in Italy.

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