Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site fortune.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!norskog From: norskog@fortune.UUCP Newsgroups: net.wines Subject: Re: Novelty wines anyone? - (nf) Message-ID: <1226@fortune.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Jul-83 19:05:42 EDT Article-I.D.: fortune.1226 Posted: Fri Jul 1 19:05:42 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Jul-83 22:56:48 EDT Sender: notes@fortune.UUCP Organization: Fortune Systems, San Carlos, CA Lines: 24 #R:aplvax:-14800:fortune:12400004:000:774 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 megatest!fortune!norskog hpda!fortune!norskog harpo!... sri-unix!... amd70!...