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  • From: RW Spalinger <rwspal@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Winemaking in Iowa?
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:59:25 -0600


On Mar 4, 2004, at 8:52 AM, road's end farm wrote:


On Tuesday, March 2, 2004, at 08:42 PM, Rodney Eveland wrote:

. If
anyone has been making great grape juice from varieties other than
Concord I would like to hear about it as unfermented grape juice
never gives me a headache.

Down here in SE Texas, we have a wild grape known as "Mustang" that grows along the fence line on our property. It is a small berry in thin clusters on an intrusive and hardy vine. They are too acrid to eat right off the vine, and have thick skins and are full of hard seeds.

But, the juice from these grapes is quite good. We mix it with some sugar and dilute it a bit with filtered water - tastes very good over ice. The jelly made from the juice, is the best that I, and according to others to whom we give away jars of it, have ever had. It has a very dense "grapey" flavor. It took a while to work out the recipe, but now we've got it. People look forward to our annual mustang grape jelly, and we keep some gallons of the juice just for drinking.

Randall Spalinger
Texas, zone 8





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