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From: richard@aplvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.wines
Subject: Novelty wines anyone?
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Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 10:32:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 30 10:32:16 1983
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	I recently toured a small winery in Western Maryland that 
featured a number of novelty wines made from fruits and berries other
than grapes.  I tasted strawberry, cherry, elderberry, plum and even
dandelion wines.
	Of these wines, the one made from Santa Rosa plums was by far
my favorite, and quite delicious.  It is rather fruity, but not sweet.
	This was my first experience with novelty wines, and I would
appreciate hearing about others' experiences.  I found some of the 
wines intriguing, and others not at all to my liking.  Dandelion wine,
for example, tasted rather weedy to me, as though I had plucked a 
dandelion out of the ground and started chewing on it.  I would especially
like to hear comments about plum wines, since I really love this one.
(For those interested, the label is Berrywine, of Berrywine Plantations,
Mt. Airy, Maryland.)

					Rich Greenberg