Just bottled up 3 gallons of red raspberry wine. This stuff turned out so good, it was drinkable right out of the bottling keg. Nothing like being cranked at 10am in the morning. Had to taste test it multiple times and didn't want to throw out that last glass worth in the keg....
Grew the raspberries myself and just followed the recipe in the book, Winemakers Recipe Handbook. If you're into making wines with various harvestables, that is the most amazing book out there. All gallon-sized recipes on everything from blueberries to grapes to oddities like onion or prickly pear. Plus a couple generics to follow for wild edibles you might want to try like persimmon or paw paw.
I have 3 gallons of Concord grape wine in a secondary. That's still settling out, though the fementing action has slowed quite a bit.
Bought a small fruit press this year that's beefy enough to do apples, so next weekend I pick up a crate of Winesaps to try hard cider from fresh apples. That'll be fun!
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