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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 Lychee wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Lychee Wine. This lychee wine is sparkling, and bottled by Schnebly Redland’s Winery of Redland, Florida.
7. Mangosteen wine
8. Marionberry wine
9. Onion wine
10. Pomegranate wine
11. Pear wine
12. Pepper wine
13. Pineapple wine
14. Rhubarb wine
15. Tomato wine
16. Watermelon wine

Here is beer with added sea salt. The label declares that it’s made with Swiss mountain spring water, barley malt, hops, yeast — and sea salt. Cargill recently drew a fair amount of flak for suggesting that people should sprinkle a bit of salt on their ice cream, coffee, fruit, but they neglected to mention beer. Douze is made in Switzerland and imported by B. United of Redding, Connecticut.

If ever there is a contest, between wine and spirits, I wonder which has been made from a greater variety of foodstuffs over the years. Here is a budding list of commodities from which wine is commonly or not so commonly fermented. Perhaps we will someday prepare a similar list of commodities from which spirits are commonly or not so commonly distilled. On such a list we’d have to include vodka made from milk. But that one is from the past, and so today to the list we add vodka distilled from honey. Comb is made by StillTheOne Distillery in Port Chester, New York. Comb is a rare brand that has a Facebook site but no other website.