Fruit Wine and Cheese Pairing

Now that the holiday season is upon us, there will be a lot of wine and cheese events happening everywhere. A common question which may pop up with us fruit wine lovers may be ‘what kind of cheese goes with this wine?’. It is usually easy for us to answer this question for Chardonnay, [...]

The Delights of St. James Winery, Missouri

Wine is usually made out of grapes. The operative term here is usually. Since the grape is a fruit, it stands to reason that any fruit can be turned into wine, and it is so.
We are so imbued with the grape as the major source of wine that we often neglect some pretty good wines [...]

Going Back to making Pomegranate Wine

John Bargetto likes to joke that in the 1970s his family’s winery was 30 years ahead of its time.
Fruit wines such as Chaucer’s pomegranate from Bargetto and persimmon and mango-papaya varieties from Adams Point are taking their place at the table.
Now that it’s 30 years later, Bargetto Winery indeed appears to have perfectly timed its [...]

New fruit winery opens near Mount Pleasant, PA

Turning juicy orbs of purple, gold and red into a palatable beverage is no easy task.
Just ask Walt Vinoski. He’s been at it for four decades.
Vinoski is a partner and winemaker for a new venture, Greendance, the Winery at Sand Hill.
Part of the Sand Hill Berries operation near Mount Pleasant, owners opened the winery in [...]

Shillong Wine Festival Gains Global Tag

Shillong, India: There is a saying in New York that when a man takes his date to a restaurant and orders a bottle of Chateau Margaux, he must be ready to pop the question.
After all, when you spend $402 on a glass of wine, you will have little left in your purse for another date [...]

Going beyond the grape: Making wine from exotic fruits

Fruit Wine story from Indonesia…
By: Yohan Handoyo
It was around a year ago, after a sop buntut lunch at the legendary Warung Pondok Indah in Bogor, that a friend of mine, J.L. Nawan, gave me this suspicious golden liquid in a half-empty Marjan syrup bottle with a small-hand written label on it that read “rambutan wine”.
“You [...]

Cider drinkers out to give Brussels a headache

Apple wine, the tangy drink famed for its thumping hangovers, is fuelling a crucial election campaign in Germany, pitting regional patriots against the bureaucrats of Brussels.
The European Commission wants to strip the wine label from bottles of the cider-like drink, known locally as Ebbelwoi, on the ground that it is not made from grapes. Yet [...]

EU is set to agree a deal on fruit wines

An update on the EU reform on fruit wines…great news for us Fruit Wine lovers…
EUROPE is on the verge of siding with vintners who say that alcohol made from apples and berries is just as much wine as that made from grapes, diplomats said yesterday.
Hot on the heels of a row over what constitutes vodka, [...]

Fruit Wine Reform in Europe…Yeah!

Interesting times in the fruit wine industry in Europe. Let’s hope bureaucracy will not ruin things for those of us that feel that a wine can be a wine whether it is made from apples, grapes or peaches…
BRUSSELS, Belgium -
Following protests from Germany and northern nations, “wine” made from apples and berries could survive [...]