Agriculture Reference
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concentrate the effects of that fruit, as I found to my chagrin
with some prune wine I made.
Always use unwaxed fruit. Waxed fruits will create a mess
rather than wine.
Fruits, you will discover, are pretty expensive in the
quantities you'd use for making wine. For example, you'll
need twenty pounds of blueberries to make five gallons of
blueberry wine. If you buy frozen organic blueberries at the
supermarket for $3.69/lb, that means $73.80 just in fruit.
Since you get twenty five bottles of wine from five gallons,
that works out to just under $3/bottle, which is still a decent
deal. Even so, it quickly becomes clear that your best bet is to
either grow fruit yourself, go to a pick-it-yourself place or
buy it in bulk from a farm stand. I pick the blueberries for my
wine at Mrs. Smith's Blueberries nearby, and it's a lot more
affordable. (You can also make wine in one-gallon batches so
your initial outlay isn't so much. This is a good idea when
experimenting!)
Fresh fruits for country wines are primarily processed using
only one technique. In this technique, the fruit is placed in a
clean nylon straining bag in the bottom of the primary
fermenter, crushed with cleaned/sanitized hands, with the
difference in volume being made up by adding water. The
