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Old Aug 28, 2009 | 7:52 pm
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Originally Posted by Gaucho100K
blueberry wine.......

website..????
Yep. Here in Wisconsin there are a number of wineries opening that do fruit wines. Blueberry wine, raspberry wine, strawberry wine, apricot wine, peach wine, blackberry wine, boysenberry wine. Along with Meads and some pretty darn good apple ciders.

It seems that a number of these people got into the fruit wines after they planted grape vines and realized they needed to make something till they had a producing vineyard...hence they utilized local fruit. A bit of trial and error and now they are making some pretty good fruit wines and some of them aren't even bothering with grapes anymore. Guess they found their niche!

Don't know about any websites, we just buy them locally.

As far as an unusual varietal, I'd have to say brachetto. Don't know how it flew under our radar for so long (had it for the first time this year) as we love Italian wines and have drunk our fair share of prosecco.
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