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Our fruit wines are produced with whole fruit(skins, seeds, and pulp) fermented with honey. Without the addition of honey most fruits do not have the sugar levels required to produce table wines with an alcohol content of 12%. We press the fruit when the alcoholic fermentation ends. This results in a wine that is the essence of the fruit. In the case of raspberry (framboise is French for raspberry) one can taste the fruit and its seeds as if it were just picked. The wine has a residual sugar of 4% and is technically semi-sweet. For the person with a sweet tooth, these wines can seem sweeter due to the intense fruit flavors. These wines are not fruit flavored white grape wines. There is no grape wine in them. These wines have many serving possibilities. We have made sorbets from them which are great during the heat of the summer (we have recipes which we will gladly share). We have also made a Framboise chocolate chiffon pie (recipes again for the asking). We also like these fruit wines with light salads, especially salads fresh from the garden in the summer. But especially I like them chilled by themselves.

Mure (French for blackberry or mulberry) is another of our fruit wines made from blackberries. What goes for Framboise goes for Mure. The sorbet is quite refreshing. We also have a recipe for white chocolate Mure chiffon pie..yum. And remember, it is great by itself.

Cerise (French for cherry) is made from sweet eating cherries and is especially tasty for those of us who like this delicious fruit. Please remember, if you don’t like the fruit we make these wines with, do not buy them, since they are so characteristic of the fruit from which they are made.

Bleuet is French for blueberry....I have had various arguments with Frenchmen about this name. However, since blueberries are not native to Europe and the French Canadian blueberries sold in New York State are labeled Bleuet, I rest my case. This wine is unique to the fruit wines we make because it is tannic. The small seeds of the blueberry are quite tannic and this shows up in our whole fruit fermentation treatment. Also, blueberries contain quit a few flavonoids which are strong anti-oxida

Peche is French for Peach....Are we seeing a pattern here? This wine is made from free stone peaches and manifests all the flavors of the peach skin, pulp and seed. This is one of my favorites since it invokes memories of my early childhood when my grandparents spoiled me by stuffing me with fresh locally grown peaches in the heat of the Mississippi summer.