What do you grow for winemaking

Any grape growers here? (my soil/site is completely unsuitable), but what about other stuff?

 

I did have grapes for a while but I lost them a few years back. I have Apricots and various apples and I usually have parsnips just for wine. The blueberries, raspberries and gooseberries sometimes end up going in too as I am not a big fruit eater. I also forage for dandelions, elderflowers, elderberries, sloes, blackberries and anything else as season and abundance allow. It's a far reaching hobby.

 

Ditto to Lea, I normally hedgerow forage for 'stuff', (as opposed to foraging normally) but runner beans are always a good wine, I made some from white beetroot and from purple podded pea pods.

Question for Lea, what yeast type do you use for your parsnip wine ?

Cheers, Tony.

 

Beetroot and Pea Pods also make good wine.The first Pea Pod I made turned out just like a sparkling wine,the taste was but the remaining years that I did wine making could never get it to do the same.

Rhubarb and Malt also make a very nice desert wine which also had some kick with it.

 

Put in a cutting of my late Dad's Muscat of Alexandria vine when we moved over here....it's settled in well and has good crops of small, sweet, pippy grapes. Now I've got a few 'seedless' varieties established for eating, so will have a go this year at making a muscat wine, wasps and hornets permitting. The ambition, though, is to produce ginger wine.....can't get it here