Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Haskap Wine?

Here's a link to a page (PDF) on the University of Saskatchewan's fruit website showing the results of Peter Reimer's work on producing haskap wine.  He writes...

A small but serious fruit wine industry is beginning to emerge in Saskatchewan.  This is due, in part, to recent legislation which aims to nurture successful grape, and non-grape, cottage wineries.  These wineries are driving a search for fruit which is reliably productive, and hardy, while resulting in a quality fermented product.  Some of Saskatchewan's fruit wine makers have discovered Haskap, and are beginning to see the full potential of the fruit...read more here

Check out this PDF for a great haskap wine recipe!