This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Linden flower wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Linden flower wine. Wild Wines Linden Flower Wine is made and bottled by Wild Wines, of Ashland, Oregon.
7. Lychee wine
8. Mangosteen wine
9. Marionberry wine
10. Onion wine
11. Pomegranate wine
12. Pear wine
13. Pepper wine
14. Pineapple wine
15. Rhubarb wine
16. Tomato wine
17. Watermelon wine

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This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Lychee wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Lychee Wine. This lychee wine is sparkling, and bottled by Schnebly Redland’s Winery of Redland, Florida.
7. Mangosteen wine
8. Marionberry wine
9. Onion wine
10. Pomegranate wine
11. Pear wine
12. Pepper wine
13. Pineapple wine
14. Rhubarb wine
15. Tomato wine
16. Watermelon wine

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This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we add Pomegranate wine to the list.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Mangosteen wine
7. Marionberry wine
8. Onion wine
9. Pomegranate wine. This example is imported from Armenia by Dozortsev & Sons of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
10. Pear wine
11. Pepper wine
12. Pineapple wine
13. Rhubarb wine
14. Tomato wine
15. Watermelon wine

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This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50. Today we build out the list with the commodities covered so far since 2008.

1. Avocado wine
2. Banana wine
3. Dandelion wine
4. Grape wine
5. Kiwi wine
6. Mangosteen wine
7. Marionberry wine
8. Onion wine
9. Pear wine
10. Pepper wine
11. Pineapple wine
12. Rhubarb wine
13. Tomato wine
14. Watermelon wine

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This post will start short but is likely to grow long over time. Very long. We will try to show the enormous range of foodstuffs from which wine is produced. With each post we will add to the list, and I predict it will grow way past 50.

1. Pear wine. This pear wine happens to be sparkling, and it’s made by Honeywood Winery of Salem, Oregon.

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After seeing this vodka distilled from cow’s milk, we didn’t expect to see too many more beverages distilled from milk. Despite all, here is Chinese Milk Liquor. The label is fairly sketchy about how it’s made. A very good website, teaching about Asian alcohol beverages, explains that this type of spirit is called Lai Jiu:

Literally “milk liquor,” it is made by taking cow’s milk, fermenting it, and distilling it. It is around 40% alcohol and it is as clear as water. I absolutely love the stuff. It has a sweet after-taste to it, like evaporated milk … . It gives one such a lovely high (much better than bai jiu). To my knowledge (and I’ve looked), it can ONLY be found in the province of China called Nei Meng Gu (Inner Mongolia).

The same website also covers Bok Bun Ja Ju (“man who pees in a pot”) but we’ll leave that topic for another day.

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In the last post, we showed a pineapple wine from Radee. As in the image above, Radee also imports a wine fermented from mangosteen.

The New York Times has a good introduction to the mangosteen in this video. It features an ethnobotanist and explains that this fruit was banned from the United States until a few years ago.

In other unusual ingredients, a Cooperstown, New York brewer makes an ale with mace, among other spices such as grains of paradise. Mace is similar to nutmeg but is not the same. The nutmeg tree is the source of both spices and is one of very few plants that produce more than one spice; nutmeg comes from the tree’s seed and mace comes from the seed’s cover. Ommegang’s Adoration Ale also features coriander and cardamom according to the label, and cumin according to the website.

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Here is wine made from pineapples, rather than grape wine with pineapple flavor. The above wine is produced and bottled by Florida Orange Groves of St. Petersburg, Florida. A second example is made in Thailand and imported by Radee Wine of Sacramento, California.

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Earlier this week we covered kiwi wine. Today, we go further from grape wine, toward vegetable wine. Rhubarb wine to be exact. Rhubarbinfo.com says it’s a vegetable and on this I will tentatively defer to them.

Assumption Abbey Rhubarb Wine is made by Pointe of View Winery in Burlington, North Dakota. The TTB database has many rhubarb wines, and they tend to be made in states not well known for grape wine, such as Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. None of these labels tend to show an appellation of origin or a vintage date. In a good article about non-grape wine, the San Francisco Chronicle explains:

[TTB] allows fruit wine makers to add sugar, acid and water as needed – natural flavors and colors are even allowed – but they don’t allow a fruit wine to bear a vintage or place-name the way a grape wine does.

“I think it’s a waste to not allow vintage dating,” says Koehler. “You have good and bad years for fruit, just like you do for grapes.”

Those laws aren’t likely to change, if only because of the effort required by the TTB to police them. What does vintage mean to Tedeschi Vineyards when pineapple is available year-round? What does place-name mean to Galarneau when he buys mangoes from around the world?

It is difficult to locate the rules that prevent rhubarb and other non-grape wines from showing the vintage and appellation. Perhaps an astute reader can point them out.

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So far, I see 78 references to wine here, but only three references to fruit wine. So today, I endeavor to correct that imbalance.

The imbalance is not due to any shortage of wines made from other than grapes. There are plenty. Today I will show a couple of wines made from the kiwi fruit. Above is King Kiwi, Kiwi Wine, made in Florida. A second producer of kiwi wines is Shalom Orchard, in Franklin, Maine.

Wiki explains that kiwi has also been know as chinese gooseberry, macaque peach, macaque pear, kiwifruit and melonette over the past century. In the 1950s, big growers pushed the name toward kiwi and away from chinese gooseberry. The latter raised issues during the Cold War. And:

An American importer … complained that melonettes was as bad as Chinese gooseberry because melons and berries were both subject to high import tarriffs, and instead asked for a short Maori name that quickly connoted New Zealand.

One company and brand dominates the worldwide kiwi trade; Zespri ships 2 billion kiwifruits to 70 countries worldwide, from New Zealand.

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