agricultural wine

This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50 60. Today we add Persimmon wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Cantaloupe wine
4. Dandelion wine
5. Elder flower wine
6. Fig wine
7. Grape wine
8. Jasmine fruit wine
9. Kiwi wine
10. Linden flower wine
11. Lychee wine
12. Mangosteen wine
13. Marionberry wine
14. Onion wine
15. Pomegranate wine
16. Pear wine
17. Pepper wine
18. Persimmon wine. Made by Buck Mountain Winery of Doe Run, Missouri.
19. Pineapple wine
20. Rhubarb wine
21. Strawberry wine
22. Tomato wine
23. Watermelon wine

This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Linden flower wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Linden flower wine. Wild Wines Linden Flower Wine is made and bottled by Wild Wines, of Ashland, Oregon.
7. Lychee wine
8. Mangosteen wine
9. Marionberry wine
10. Onion wine
11. Pomegranate wine
12. Pear wine
13. Pepper wine
14. Pineapple wine
15. Rhubarb wine
16. Tomato wine
17. Watermelon wine

Earlier this week we covered kiwi wine. Today, we go further from grape wine, toward vegetable wine. Rhubarb wine to be exact. Rhubarbinfo.com says it’s a vegetable and on this I will tentatively defer to them. Assumption Abbey Rhubarb Wine is made by Pointe of View Winery in Burlington, North Dakota. The TTB database has many rhubarb wines, and they tend to be made in states not well known for grape wine, such as Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. None of these labels tend to show an appellation of origin or a vintage date. In a good article about non-grape wine, the San Francisco Chronicle explains:

[TTB] allows fruit wine makers to add sugar, acid and water as needed – natural flavors and colors are even allowed – but they don’t allow a fruit wine to bear a vintage or place-name the way a grape wine does.

“I think it’s a waste to not allow vintage dating,” says Koehler. “You have good and bad years for fruit, just like you do for grapes.”

Those laws aren’t likely to change, if only because of the effort required by the TTB to police them. What does vintage mean to Tedeschi Vineyards when pineapple is available year-round? What does place-name mean...