Praire Berry Winery - Crab Apple Wine 2009

Ralph Voijta, our winemaker's father, talks about crab apples and the joys of "found fruit" from his early days making wine.

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• Wine
• Prairie
• Berry
• Winery
• Prarie
• Vineyard
• South
• Dakota
• Black
• Hills
• Fruit
• Fermentation
• Vino
• Red
• Ass
• Rhubarb
• Crab
• Apple

[moemansix]

Hello from Ohio

I'm going to make some apple wine this fall. Is there much difference in taste from using regular apples as apposed to using crab apples?

Thanks

[prairieberrywinery]

@moemansix

How exciting! It the tast truly depends on the apples....so safest answer is maybe? HA! Good Luck and cheers!

[moemansix]

Hello again from Ohio

I contacted you 4 months ago with some questions about apple wine. I made some wine out of crab apples from the trees in my yard. They are about the size of the ones in your viedo. I just finished racking 5 gal. of it for the third time and I had to try it. I cant believe how good it is. I guess the deer will have to find something else to eat next year. They aren't getting any more of my crab apples....OK I will leave them some.

Thanks for the viedo. Cheers. JK

[teddyd30]

Great video! Thanks for putting it up!

I make apple wine from a canned concentrate from the grocery store. I use montrachet yeast and then I rack it off into a sterilized bottle and put malolactic bacteria into it for a couple weeks.

I drink it young and it usually makes my nose run and sneeze. Do you know why this is?

I appreciate your advice. Thanks a lot!