Vintner's Harvest offers the home winemaker a range of premium fruit with the year-round variety every winemaker needs. There is no finer product on the market for crafting your own fruit wines. With easy to follow instructions and recipes for varied volumes, you will soon discover the joys of making high quality fruit wines in the comfort of your home. If you currently make beer, you will find much of the equipment is interchangeable and making wine is just as simple as beer if not more so. Ask your local wine and beer supply store for tips, books and supplies to add further enjoyment to the exciting hobby of home winemaking.
Varieties of Vintner's Harvest Fruit Bases
APPLE: A concentrate of choice Pacific Northwest varieties balanced to maximize flavor, aroma and tartness. Also ideal for Cider making.
APRICOT: Patterson variety, grown in California, known for full flavor and aroma.
BLACKBERRY: Evergreen, the most common variety grown in the Pacific Northwest.
BLACK CURRANT: A concentrate of blended currant juices for award-winning wines.
BLUEBERRY: Elliot variety, a high bush berry, sweet with a hint of tartness, grown In Oregon.
BOYSENBERRY: A large, long "blackberry" with few seeds and robust raspberry-like flavor.
CHERRY: Lambert: a black, crisp fruit with superb flavor.
CRANBERRY: Dark red fruit with characteristic tartness, grown in Washington state.
ELDERBERRY: A concentrate from the full-flavored bluish-purple berry that produces a superior wine.
GOOSEBERRY: Oregon grown, pale green fruit with Superior flavor.
KIWI: Oregon Grown, this highly nutritional fruit makes a popular refreshing, crisp wine. Often used in fruit wine blends by Wine Kit Producers.
LOGANBERRY: A tangy, purplish-red cross between wild blackberry and red raspberry grown in Oregon.
MARIONBERRY: A variety of blackberry, developed in Oregon, with large fruit and intense flavor.
PEACH: A late variety fruit with outstanding flavor, grown in Oregon and California orchards.
PEAR: Perfect for wine or cider, this adjusted concentrate is a blend of the best varieties.
PLUM: Italian variety, large delicious black-purple fruit with yellow-green flesh, from Oregon.
RASPBERRY: An Oregon grown gem, bright red, medium sized berry with the familiar flavor.
RHUBARB: This common wine base makes a fresh tasting, tart wine which is typically sweetened.
STRAWBERRY: A mix of varieties selected for their superior flavor and sweet tart balance. Oregon strawberries are smaller but more flavorful than those grown elsewhere.
Note: minor variations in fruit types may exist from season to season.
