Rhubarb wine: Looking beyond the grape - Fruit & Vegetable Magazine

Rhubarb wine: Looking beyond the grape - Fruit & Vegetable Magazine

Grape wines get all the attention. How about fruit wines? Out here on the Canadian Prairies the only grapes grown are a very sour, mouth puckering variety, much like many of the other fruits that grow there. This includes rhubarb, a tart vegetable, not a fruit – though commonly used as a fruit – alongside those other sour prairie edibles, commonly grown in many backyard gardens in Western Canada. A few enterprising wineries, such as DNA Gardens …