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 Country wine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Country wines are fermented alcoholic beverages made from a variety of ingredients other than grapes (the base of "ordinary" wine) and having a variety of flavors.
Country wines are always called something wines (e.g., plum wine), since the word wine alone is often legally defined as a beverage made only from grapes.
Country wine can be made from any fruit or, with addition of sugar or honey, from many plant sources.
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 Useless Facts
Wine is an alcoholic beverage that is made by fermenting grapes or grape juice.
The word wine and its equivalents in other languages is protected by law in many jurisdictions and therefore should always mean grape wine.
For non-grape wines, see country wine for fruit and flower wines, sake for rice wine, baijiu for the Chinese spirits sometimes translated "wine," and mead for honey wine.
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 Winemaking: Elderberry to Prune - Cooking with Herbs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Wine yeast will produce upto 17% to 18% in alcohol content and has the advantage of producing a cheeselike sediment with a clear liquid above it which is easy to siphon off without any residue to cloud the final product.
Wine yeast is often sold in packages/packets that specify the amount of wine to be made.
This wine is not usually made for drinking purposes, but rather for blending with fruit wines which do not measure up sufficiently in acid requirements.
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 Homestead Farm's FAQs - Elderberry
Elderberry focuses on the nutritional needs of the immune system offering the body additional amounts of vitamin C, fruit acids and traces of essential oils and anthocyanci pigments.
Warm elderberry wine is a remedy for sore throat, influenza and induces perspiration to reverse the effects of a chill.
Elderberries are the size of cultivated currants but very strongly flavored, crunchy, and not as sweet.
www.homestead-farm.net /Elderberry.html   (2045 words)

  
 Wine Encyclopedia Articles @ DirtyArt.com (Dirty Art)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
While the name sometimes appears in the forms "WINE" and "wine", the project developers have agreed to standardize on the form "Wine".
The Wine project originally released Wine under the same MIT License as the X Window System, but owing to concern about proprietary versions of Wine not contributing their changes back to the core project, work as of March 2002 has used the LGPL for its licensing.
Consequently, the Wine team has had to reverse engineer many function calls and file formats in such areas as thunking.
www.dirtyart.com /encyclopedia/Wine   (943 words)

  
 winemaking: elderberry wines
Wine made from the uncooked berries is neither toxic nor distasteful.
I do not believe there is any difference in taste between the wines made from uncooked and cooked berries, but the cooked berry wine seems more colorfast than the uncooked berry wine.
I live in a part of Texas where elderberries are native but not as common as elsewhere, and so I usually use dried elderberries or have to travel a ways to collect them in the wild.
winemaking.jackkeller.net /elderber.asp   (777 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Elderberry wine increases the power of witches and burning the berries summons fairies.
I wanted a sweet wine, hence the high S.G. The acid titrated to only.4%, so I added one ounce of acid blend and one tablespoon of citric acid to bring it up to.6%, the recommended level for fruit wines.
For 2000, I made elderberry melomel, that is, sweetened with honey instead of sugar.
mywebpages.comcast.net /rbfarm/eldrwine.html   (463 words)

  
 elderberries.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The elderberry is sometimes referred to as the Englishman's grape, as its nutritional values are similar to the grape (source).
Elderberry shrubs grow wild to about 10 feet and are easiest to locate in spring when they are in flower.
There is little difference in taste between the wines made from uncooked and cooked berries, but the cooked berry wine seems more colorfast than the uncooked berry wine (source).
www.elderberries.com /elderberries.html   (1430 words)

  
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Mix all the ingredients EXCEPT the wine yeast in primary fermenter.
When wine is clear and stable, it may be bottled.
If a sweeter wine is desired, add simple syrup to taste (2 parts fructose or sugar to 1 part boiling water).
www.defalcos.com /elderberry_wine.htm   (197 words)

  
 winemaking: requested recipe (Elderberry Wine)
Remember 3/5 of water is used for the elderberry portion of wine.
Re-press the elderberries and store this juicy water with a C tablet in a cool place.
Add the elderberry water juices to a suitable fermenting container and the acid blend plus sufficient sugar dissolved in the balance of water allotted to the elderberry portion 3/5 of total to a S.G. of 1.095.
www.mnsi.net /~munger/elderberry2.htm   (552 words)

  
 Elderberry Wine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Elderberries are reputed to be the one fruit other than red wine grapes that can produce a Bordeaux style wine.
That is, we ferment the elderberries on the skin and then press off the juice into small French oak barrels.
Blacksmiths Elderberry is a dry red wine with a floral nose and pronounced peppery flavor.
www.blacksmithswinery.com /Elder.htm   (173 words)

  
 Elderberry Wine
The scientific answer: Elderberry plants are large shrubs, or small trees, sometimes growing up to 20 feet, cultivated to a limited extent in the U.S. for the fruit.
Stems of an elderberry are hollow or pithy.
Wild elderberry stalks grow abundantly throughout Arkansas and in the spring can be easily located because of their large white blossoms.
www.mountbethel.com /elderberrywine.htm   (370 words)

  
 Elderberry Wine Recipe
This is the Wine I made January 13.
Crush elderberries and place in primary fermentor, then defrost banana and place them in fermentor as well.
Add the rind and the juice from the oranges to the must, then add the rest of the ingredients with the exemption of the yeast, water and the sugar.
www.mnsi.net /~munger/elderberry1.htm   (143 words)

  
 Elderberry
Though Jeannie and I don't claim to be experts on the elderberry and its uses, we have enjoyed the fruit for many years.
Pour off the top wine into a gallon jar, leaving as much of the deposit behind as possible.
Fold the cream, eggwhites and elderberry syrup together gently, until the whole mixture is a uniform lurid purple.
members.aol.com /BLaneKY/elderberry.htm   (849 words)

  
 Wine Forum - Lets Talk Wine - Chilli Wine
Is that a euphemism for a fawlty (sic) wine?
These strong flavor wines are intended for cooking not drinking but they do add great flavor to a steak or salad dressing.
I will admit dandelion is a stretch but I greatly enjoy elderberry wine and in my opinion blueberry is a close second.
www.letstalkwine.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=553   (632 words)

  
 Elderberry Wine Recipe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
If you want a really clear wine it should be racked from time to time, i.e.
pour the clear wine from the old bottles, into clean ones, keeping the yeast deposit to re-clear in the old bottles.
The wine should be kept for six months without sampling.
www.red4.co.uk /Recipes/elderberry-wine.htm   (260 words)

  
 Barbara Tatham Johnson ELDERBERRY Wolf Moon Press A Maine Journal of Art and Opinion
She was as delighted as I was with the variety and abundance of wild fruits growing in the fields and along the lanes and stream sides and with the possibilities of jams, jellies, pies, cobblers, and crisps made with fruit for only the cost of the enjoyable efforts of picking.
Elderberry wine contains natural medicinal benefits, a remedy for colds and flu, sore throats, and asthma as well as rheumatism.
The usual ratio of three parts elderberry juice to one part wine or port caused such a loss of business for the Portuguese port makers that in the eighteenth century the cultivation of elderberry plants in Portugal was forbidden.
www.wolfmoonpress.com /Essays/edlerberry.htm   (1315 words)

  
 botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Elder - Herb Profile and Information
Elderberries are eaten greedily by young birds and pigeons, but are said to have serious effects on chickens: the flowers are reported to be fatal to turkeys, and according to Linnaeus, also to peacocks.
Doctoring port wine with Elderberry juice seems to have assumed such dimensions that in 1747 this practice was forbidden in Portugal, even the cultivation of the Elder tree was forbidden on this account.
Elderberry Wine has a curative power of established repute as a remedy, taken hot, at night, for promoting perspiration in the early stages of severe catarrh, accompanied by shivering, sore throat, etc. Like Elderflower Tea, it is one of the best preventives known against the advance of influenza and the ill effects of a chill.
www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/e/elder-04.html   (7626 words)

  
 The Absinthe Diaries
Elderberry wine and I have a long and storied relationship reaching way back to some Renaissance Faire I once attended at the behest of a girl on whom I had a crush.
They've been making wine since 1991, and they represent the shift of non-traditional wines from souvenir novelties to sophisticated, world-class creations possessed of the daring and willingness to experiment that we see in the microbrew and microdistillery movements that are redefining wine and spirits across the globe.
Incidentally, my Kentucky wine spree also netted a bottle from Equus Run and a bottle from Huber's Orchard and Winery, which technically is in Indiana, I know, but man, you have to taste their fried chicken and fried biscuits with apple butter.
www.teleport-city.com /spirits   (8932 words)

  
 winemaking: elderberry wine
The cooked ripe berries of the edible elders are harmless, but raw elderberries can cause nausea if eaten in quantity.
Elderberry wine can take from 1 to 5 years to fully mature, but when you pour a glass, you'll be glad you waited.
Wine may not mature for 3-5 years, but will be worth the wait.
winemaking.jackkeller.net /texelder.asp   (773 words)

  
 winemaking: Making Wines from Wild Plants
You can blend it with a complementary but weaker tasting wine or with a "second" wine made from the same fruit pulp as the first batch--if you happened to have made one.
When making a wine by recipe that specifies a varied quantity--such as 4-6 lbs--you can be assured that using the lesser quantity will make an acceptable wine, but using the larger quantity will make a fruitier wine.
More importantly, you'll have that "second" wine to use in blending with the first batch should its taste be too strong for you.
winemaking.jackkeller.net /plants.asp   (1870 words)

  
 Amateur wine-makers uncork the fruits of their labors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
And believe it or not, it was some potato wine made years ago by a friend that tempted him to try wine-making.
He tailors his wine, adjusting the sweetness, to suit the varied tastes of his friends and relatives.
The wine finishes fermenting in about 28 days, but then requires several months of "racking," a process that clears the wine of impurities.
www.jsonline.com /news/sunday/food/0719wine.stm   (1056 words)

  
 Paul's Elderberry Page
Put the rinsed elderberries in the carboy using a funnel.
Boil the claret and pour over the elderberries in a large casserole dish.
Bottle the wine and store in a dark place for 6 months before using.
www.patch-work.demon.co.uk /elder.htm   (1876 words)

  
 Wine Making Recipes - Beer Making Recipes - Winemaking Supplies - Wine Making Supplies - Beer Making Supplies
For a dry wine, rack in three weeks, and every three months for one year.
Wine is ready to drink one year after the date the batch was started.
Your satisfaction with our wine making supplies and beer making supplies is our number one priority.
www.homebrewit.com /recelderberry.php   (1102 words)

  
 WindRiver Wine Making Supplies
If you enjoy drinking wine you will be amazed at the quality that can be achieved using this kit in conjunction with one of the wine kits below.
Selection International Wine Kits: Thesse kits use concentrate that is sourced from the world's most famous wine producing regions.
Making wine with these bases is much like making wine from fresh fruit.
www.windriverbrew.com /wine.html   (845 words)

  
 Italian Wine Index - BuonaCottura.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thus, the finest sparkling wines from California will be labeled "sparkling wine"; only cheaply-made sparkling wine from California bears the name "Champagne".
Many exclusive wines come from France and Italy, but other regions also have some world-class wines in both quality and price.
Also investment in fine wine has attracted a number fraudsters who have played on fine wine's exclusive image and and their clients' ignorance of this sector of the wine market.
www.buonacottura.com /Italian-Wine/index.html   (2171 words)

  
 Healthy Witch's Herbs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Pre-Christian documents attributed protective, healing powers to the fl elder (Sambucus nigra), and in England it was believed bad luck to cut its branches for fear of showing disrespect to the mother elder, who was thought to inhabit the tree.
Elderberry wine is an old European tradition, but the elderberry, or elder, supplies much more than beverages: from the manufacture of musical pipes to the treatment of human ailments, the shrub has aided countless generations.
A syrup from the berry juice was once a remedy for coughs, and cold sufferers comforted themselves with hot toddies of mulled elderberry wine.
groups.msn.com /HealthyWitchsHerbs/elderberry.msnw   (164 words)

  
 Wine making recipes - grapestompers
This page of wine recipes is provided by our customers and friends, for which we are extremely grateful.
This is also a good time to add sparkalloid, to clear the wine and allow all sediment suspended to form a sludge at the bottom of the jar.
A dry tea wine is useful for blending with other wines that may seem a little flat or dull, due to low tannin content.
www.grapestompers.com /recipes.htm#teabag   (1979 words)

  
 Drink Recipes: Elderberry Wine 01 - by Recipe Cottage
wine from _between_ the "cap" and the layer of sludge at the bottom
the tube and lower it as the level of wine lowers.
The best working temperature for wine is a steady 65 - 75.
www.recipecottage.com /drinks/elderberry-wine01.html   (711 words)

  
 Venison Denver Leg and Elderberry-Red Wine Sauce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Add fl elderberries and sugar, stir with a spoon, then add brandy and flame with a lighter (be careful).
Add red wine and let the liquid reduce to about 2 tbsp, then add the veal stock and let reduce again to about half a cup.
In the middle of the dinner plate, layer sauted mushrooms on the purée and 2 lasagna rectangles.
www.gaslightgourmet.tv /recipes/gg_entrees_venison_denver.html   (330 words)

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