The Daily Fruit Wine

Featured Fruit for Wine: Elderberry and Flower Wine

Dominic Rivard — Wed, 16 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000

One of the hardiest, most adaptable plants on the planet, the humble elder tree has a delicious secret: the flower and fruit of this unprepossessing plant make a tasty wine. The fruit is often inedible, owing to its sharp, strong flavor: but when fermented and mixed with sugar, it reveals [...]

Artisan Cidery in Major Expansion Boom

Dominic Rivard — Sun, 13 May 2012 13:47:27 +0000

I love these good news stories. Yes, cider is in expansion in many parts of the world that that only means good news for cider lovers and their makers. Check out the video below, it says it all! Cider Industry Booming

Serving Cider in Spain

Dominic Rivard — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:38:48 +0000

I was recently in Northern Spain and one thing I learned is that the Spanish not only make and drink a fair amount of excellent wine but that apple cider is also a very popular drink and does have a long history, especially in the northern part of the country. [...]

Hunting in the Hedgerows for Fruit Wine Inspiration

Dominic Rivard — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:02:35 +0000

Gathering ingredients for making fruit wine needn’t be expensive or difficult, if you know where to look. For while grocery stores, winemaking specialists and online stockists might offer high quality equipment and ingredients with promises of fast, or cheap delivery, it doesn’t come any cheaper than picking your own fruits [...]

Haskap Berry – the “Grape of the North”

Dominic Rivard — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:35:53 +0000

A great “feel good” story of Greg and Mira Melien in Northern Ontario written by Heidi Ulrichsen of Nothernlife.ca Read on! As Greg and Mira Melien look out onto the field at their Warren-area farm, the pride on their faces is obvious. The young couple sold their Petawawa farm a [...]

A Bit of Shameless Self Promotion

Dominic Rivard — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:22:17 +0000

Its been a while since my last entry. Have been very busy with fruit wine and cider production at my own facility. Yummy apple, cranberry and black currant wines being made as well as ciders coming out this summer. I usually promote wines from a lot of other great wineries [...]

Fruit Wines are Alive and Well in Indiana

Dominic Rivard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:31:14 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, I was in Indianapolis, Indiana for the Indy Horticultural Congress. An excellent source of information for anyone in the agriculture industry in the mid-west. I was invited there to do talks on icewine and fruit wines, my two specialties by the head of the Oenology/Viticultural [...]