A friend hunting on an old abandoned farm called me to tell me he found lots of grapes. There are Small dark blue one which do not get to 1/2 inch I think may be a wild vine that had been trellised at some point. There are larger ones that are dark that I believe taste like Concords and also a dark reddish purple that unfortunatly taste more like a table grape.Long story short, got more help pickin' than I wanted and now all these are combined.Got about 25 lbs and there is a pretty even split of 1/3 of each kind.
Destemmed them all and froze them and now looking for an idea of how to get the best wine out of this mix.
(I hope the tabley tasting ones don't screw up the taste)
I have found some receipes, but none mentiond to MLF them and wondered if I should?
Oh, an as a side note also found a choke cherry tree about 12 feet tall that is loaded,and trying to figure out how to pick them, don't think a ladder will work!
So any input on how to best work with the grapes or ideas how to pick chokes would be greatly appreciated.!
Destemmed them all and froze them and now looking for an idea of how to get the best wine out of this mix.
(I hope the tabley tasting ones don't screw up the taste)
I have found some receipes, but none mentiond to MLF them and wondered if I should?
Oh, an as a side note also found a choke cherry tree about 12 feet tall that is loaded,and trying to figure out how to pick them, don't think a ladder will work!
So any input on how to best work with the grapes or ideas how to pick chokes would be greatly appreciated.!