Yes. I make wine from them every year. Very tasty! They are Autum Olives. I eat them fresh as well. Kinda tart and sweet like a choke cherry. They make a white wine. All the red parts settle to the bottom with the silver spots setteling on that. White wine will be on top. Sometimes the silver spots stick to the sides of the carboy. The same happenes in you juice them. Very fun to watch
Five galleons of wine I use about 18# of berries. Lavin D47 yeast. I do add 1/4tsp grape tannin at start of ferment. Nutriants and yeast energizer. Peptic enzyme as well. The usuall additions.
If I am in a hurry I will heat the berries just to the point they pop open, saves time with crushing them. Just be sure to add plenty of peptic enzyme!
This is a very nice plant. It fixes nitrogen in the soil so other plants can use it. Often planted in orchards to bost fruit yeild. Dies off in under 20 years, often far less. Way more nutrishish then acai berries. For you non health nuts this makes the autom olive 1000 times better for you then anything else you can find to eat in any store.
It is listed on the invasive plants list, but it does not grow everywhere. It does not harm other plants or people, helps them is more like it! But it does reseed freely
Pick when ripe, or the birds will clean off the bush!
Sorry about the spelling, the letters just refuse to order themselve!!
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