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From: norskog@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Re: Novelty wines anyone? - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 19:05:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  1 19:05:42 1983
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fortune!norskog    Jul  1 14:29:00 1983

Inspired by my brother, a professional vintner,
in high school I made quite a lot of fruit wines.
(At the time I didn't like grape-based wines.  I was a strange child.)
The only one that I cared to drink was wild blackberry wine,
which came out very close to a high-quality burgundy.
The only blackberries that you can get in commercial quantities
(3-4 pounds per gallon of finished wine) are not wild,
but grown from bred varieties.  These varieties were developed
for eating, not making wine.  I've never tasted a good commercial
blackberry wine.  Other fruit wines just don't have the
complexity of flavor and character that grape wines possess.

		Lance Norskog
		Fortune Systems
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