Favorite wine?

What is your favorite wine to make and drink? I am new to wine making so I really don't have one yet, but I have a very berry wine and a pumpkin mess in the fermented.

I think my favorite is the crabapple wine I make yearly, but I like the oaked chokecherry nearly as much!

Where do you buy most of you fruit from?

I make cranberry and sour cherry wines every year and everyone loves them. Last year a banana/ginger wine was a winter time hit. Some new wines from last year that look promising are pomegranate and dried rose hips, but they will need a little more aging. And the Skeeter Pee for the hot days of summer never fails.

LILJONNYWV said:

Where do you buy most of you fruit from?

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Me? I don't buy fruit. Well, except for bananas since they don't grow this far north!

Yooper said:

Me? I don't buy fruit. Well, except for bananas since they don't grow this far north!

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So you just make all of yours from juice?

LILJONNYWV said:

So you just make all of yours from juice?

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I generally crush the fruit and use campden tablets. After primary fermentation, I squeeze out the fruit (in mesh bags) and proceed.

janzz said:

I make cranberry and sour cherry wines every year and everyone loves them. Last year a banana/ginger wine was a winter time hit. Some new wines from last year that look promising are pomegranate and dried rose hips, but they will need a little more aging. And the Skeeter Pee for the hot days of summer never fails.

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Do you have a recipe for the banana/ginger wine?

yooper said:

i generally crush the fruit and use campden tablets. After primary fermentation, i squeeze out the fruit (in mesh bags) and proceed.

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Where is the best place to find fruit?

LILJONNYWV said:

Where is the best place to find fruit?

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On trees, bushes, and plants?

I mean, I don't know if you're serious or not, so forgive me if you are. But raspberries grow on bushes, apples on trees, cherries on trees, blueberries on bushes, and so on.

Lol... Well blackberries are all over the place here, but not a lot of apple trees.... well that I know of atleast.

Here is my recipe for the banana/ginger wine:

Bananas - 4.25 lbs
Ginger root - 6.5 oz
Raisins - 2.25 lbs
Sugar - 4.25 lbs
Water - 7 l
Yeast nutrient - 2 tsp
Yeast energizer - 1 tsp
Acid blend - 2 tsp
Pectic enzyme - 2 tsp
Tannin - 1 tsp
Campden tablets, yeast (I used premier cuvee)

Cut the ginger root and raisins into smaller pieces. Dissolve the sugar in 2.8 l of boiling water and mix it all in the primary. Slice the bananas, place in pot and add 0.5 l water. boil for 20 min. Strain the liquid into the primary and after it cools add the water and other ingredients. Let it ferment in primary for about a week, than rack to secondary. Rack again when the fermentation is finished. It clears fast on its own and is ready to drink after 6 months. Makes 10 l (2,5 gal).
Since my starting S.G. was high at 1.116 I would split the sugar next time.

so far my favorite is my red currant wine. this years came out very good. lol oh yeah it is the first i made and only one bottled so far. A guy i used to work with made an elderberry wine that i loved.

get out int the country in the older neighborhoods and look for fruit trees. and talk to people. most people that have fruit trees and and berries, don't mind sharing a few bags if they have plenty.
50 lbs blackberries
40 lbs figs
20 lbs blue berries
all in the freezer to make jelly jam and wine.
i missed the apples this year but i'm up to my ears in pears 6 bags and more coming.
and muscadines just starting to ripen.
thats one ove the saving graces of living in alabama.