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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

A number of the commercial aronia wines I've tasted are nearly
undrinkable to me.  They all seem to be highly filtered semi-sweet
blush wines.  I've been making a aronia wine with 100% juice that
stains your lips like the deepest red wines on the market.  I just
wish I had bottles around long enough to see how they'll hold up in 5
- 10 years.  With all those anthocyanins, one would think the wine
would improve with age.

~mIEKAL

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 9:25 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> More like tens of thousands of bushes.  A friend south of me just
> propagated 50,000 cutting to grow out.  The aronia group that is
> headed by Dale at Carandale Farms ( http://www.carandale.com/ ) has a
> large group of farmers all putting in anywhere from a few hundred
> plants to acres of plants in WI, MN, IA & NE.
>
> Sawmill Hollow seems to have some of the most developed product line
> using aronia, their catalogue will give you an idea of potential
> products.  I believe the health related products are the ones that are
> selling the best.
>
> http://sawmillhollow.com/shop/
>
> Personally I'm putting in 100s of plants to make aronia wine which
> I've found to be very popular.  The amish like to get it from me to
> use as medicine.
>
> ~mIEKAL