{"id":2777,"date":"2007-04-25T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T16:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/not-just-grapes\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T16:33:30","slug":"not-just-grapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/25\/not-just-grapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Just Grapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all commercial wine is made from grapes. There are good reasons to ferment grapes, but there is no good reason to ignore other fruit. I&#8217;ve sampled good commercial cherry wine, and while it&#8217;s not available locally, I know of some wineries that specialize in blueberry wine. I have made good, if I say so myself, wine from blueberries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/12\/know-your-ingredients-raspberries\/\">raspberries<\/a>, plums, apples, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/know-your-ingredients-rhubarb\/\">rhubarb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;m particularly excited about making wine from what I grow in my own garden, I&#8217;ve started growing fruit trees in pots, just like my grape vines. A rhubarb patch yields enough &#8220;fruit&#8221; (most of us think of it as fruit even though it&#8217;s technically a vegetable) for rhubarb wine every year. But my bonsai orchard won&#8217;t produce fruit for years, and I&#8217;ll count myself lucky if my bonsai vineyard offers up enough grapes for a gallon of wine this year. So I&#8217;m going to make tomato wine this year!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as weird as it sounds. Though we all think of tomatoes as vegetables, they&#8217;re botanically fruit. Fruit of the vine, no less, and I can grow them from seed, harvest the fruit, and make wine in one season. The future members of my &#8220;tomato vineyard&#8221; have already sprouted, and I hope to transplant them outside in mid-May. I&#8217;ll keep you posted &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all commercial wine is made from grapes. There are good reasons to ferment grapes, but there is no good reason to ignore other fruit. I&#8217;ve sampled good commercial cherry wine, and while it&#8217;s not available locally, I know of some wineries that specialize in blueberry wine. I have made good, if I say so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-tomato-wine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/washingtonwinemaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}