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[hellziggy]

OK, time to tap the LJ Hive Mind.

We're doing product design right now and I'm going to do wine for my project. It's going to have a mad scientist Jekyll/Hyde theme. The inspiration was my dad's cranberry wine.

In the mad scientist vein, there won't be any grape wine, it will be wine made from other things. Maybe dandelion wine, strawberry wine, blackberry wine, etc.

Have any of you had a non-grape wine? What was it? Was it good?

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[jenwolf.livejournal.com]

My uncle is a vintner (winemaker), and I've had all kinds of non-grape wine. He's made strawberry, blueberry, apple, pear, plum, pineapple, cherry, cranberry, blackberry and raspberry.
The weirdest one he ever made was white pine. He harvested the new, succulent needles from a white pine tree and made wine from them. Interestingly enough, it tasted nothing like turpentine or gin. It had a lightly green flavour, but also slightly sweet.

Oh, I've visited a winery in Iowa that made wine from all kinds of things, too. Garlic, jalepenos, raisins, carrots, elderberry flowers, and rhubarb.
Their website is here: La Vida Loca