Chokecherry - Wild Harvest Edible - Wine and Mead

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Chokecherry - Wild Harvest Edible - Wine and Mead

by Boris » 09 Jul 2024 08:01

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Chokecherry wine is a spectacular treat to share and savor. A wine that is both full-bodied and delightfully tart, it can be left dry or sweetened to taste. Add honey instead of sugar and you can make chokecherry mead.

Trying to get your friends to try anything including the name “chokecherry” may be a hard sell, but chokecherry wine should quickly convert them. Ripe chokecherries are sweet with a more subtle astringency and absolutely perfect for winemaking.

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Chokecherries, also called bitter berry and bird cherry, belong to the stone fruit family as do cherries, apricots and plums. Not to be confused with the similarly-named chokeberry, chokecherries are a species of prunus with a single stone, while chokeberries are a species of aronia with several seeds inside. READ FULL ARTICLE

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