Dec 03
Not all wines are made from grapes. You can find wine made from a wide variety of fruits, wine made from honey, and I’ve even heard about people making tomato wine. I’ve also enjoyed pomegranate juice in the past, and it does seem like it would make a good, flavorful wine. I recently received two …
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Oct 13
Parley Lake Winery is located on a gravel road near Parley Lake just east of Waconia, Minnesota. The same family also operates Deardorff Orchards at the same location, where you can buy apples and even go pick your own. It makes sense, then, that they would combine apples and grapes in one wine. In addition …
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Oct 12
Today, for day 4 of Regional Wine Week, I’m featuring another fruit wine from Forestedge Winery. Cranberries grow well in the cold northern climate. In fact, over half of the total US production of cranberries comes from Wisconsin (which is just east of Minnesota). For white cranberries, they pick them before they turn red. Forestedge also …
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Oct 11
While there are some grapes that can survive the cold Minnesota winters, another option is to make wine from other cold-hardy fruits. One fruit, that isn’t technically a fruit but ends up in pies anyway, is rhubarb. I had a rhubarb wine many years ago when I lived in Iowa at the Ox Yoke Inn …
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