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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Sarah said chokecherries then you said pin cherry. Not the same at all.

On 6/30/2012 7:45 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
> Sarah it's interesting that you describe the taste of Nanking as
> similar to pin cherry, my impressions, especially when vinified is
> that I'm surprised how similar to sour cherry they taste.  Of course
> there is nothing more arbitrary than one's taste buds.   I have about
> 25 carmine jewel in the ground,  all the fruit got froze this year by
> our early early season and late 23, so I'm hoping to get a taste of
> them next year.
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Sarah Kehler Ewing<skkewing@yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
> > .......................................  I find that the nankings taste a lot like chokecherries when processed 
into jam/jelly/syrup whereas the U of S and Evan's cherries taste like 
real cherries when processed. ......................