More Than Just a Hint of Peach

Ontario’s fruit vintners want a better deal for libations from the orchard and berry patch
By: Catherine Porter
If Bert Andrews gets his way, you’ll be able to pick up a bottle of white currant wine to complement that free-range chicken you buy at a farmers’ market next spring.
Andrews is among a group of farmers and [...]

Fruit Sparkling Wine is Extremely Popular in Japan

In Japan, fruit wines have always been popular. Any wine store or wine section of a Japanese supermarket will have a relatively large fruit wine section.
Now the rage in Japan is sparkling fruit wines. I will let the following article speak for itself:
Source: July 9th, 2007 Yomiuri Shinbun Newspaper article translated to English.
How would you [...]

A Real Florida Wine!

Lychee wine?
I know it sounds kind of odd, but, really, what could be more Floridian than wines made with tropical fruits?
That’s the premise behind Schnebly, a new winery in Homestead — yes, it’s the southernmost winemaker in the United States — that produces mango, carambola, passion fruit, guava and lychee wines. I’ve been hearing all [...]