[NAFEX] training mulberries

mIEKAL aND qazingulaza at gmail.com
Thu Apr 15 07:57:08 EDT 2010


My partner & I just bought a new 40 acre place to start a vineyard &  
winery, which is to say I have a lot of space for experimentation.   
I've never made wine with mulberry before, so this is definitely not  
on my tried & true list.  But I love making wine with deep purple  
fruit.  My aronia wines have been turning out very nice.

I'm certainly open to  trying other varieties & even the wild which  
I've never seen in my area & not even sure what that would be.  A lot  
of folks around here plant the Russian mulberries but I'm not a fan of  
them, they really don't ripen well for me & they have a very herby  
flavor.

& quite truthfully I kinda doubt that Illinois Everbearing will make  
it thru a true Wisconsin winter.  We'll see.

~mIEKAL


On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:10 PM, William C. Garthright wrote:

> Wild mulberries around here ripen all at once, so they produce more  
> than
> the birds can eat. They're very popular with every bird around, it
> seems, but there's still plenty for people to harvest, too. If you  
> want
> a mulberry to feed the birds, the Illinois Everbearing might work  
> pretty
> well. But I'm surprised that you picked this variety for getting a  
> bunch
> of fruit for wine.



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