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Wine Details
Price:
$18.00 per bottle
Description:
Elderberries are reputed to be the one fruit other than red wine grapes that can produce a Bordeaux style wine. We treat the Elderberry just as we would a Cabernet Sauvignon or Merlot. That is, we ferment the elderberries on the skin in small French oak barrels and then press off the juice. The wine produced is aged in the same French barrels for 18 months. Blacksmiths Elderberry is a dry red wine with a pronounced peppery flavor. Most of the elderberries we use are wild Maine elderberries that we pick on an annual pilgrimage to Brooksville, Maine. Every September we drive through the Maine countryside and stop wherever we see ripe elderberries on the roadside. Eventually we get to Brooksville where we get fruit from some named cultivars grown by a photographer who produces outstanding elderberries.
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