Ray - I agree with you on the onion but the tomato my father in law made was
excellent and over time - as with most wines - the tomatoish taste would
have disappeared and you wouldn't even know what it was made from.

Incidentally, a tomato is a fruit - not a vegetable!


"Ray Calvert" > wrote in message
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> I have always resisted the urge to make most vegetable wines. The idea of
> tomato or onion wine just does not appeal to me. BUT, I can thing of no
> better reason to make a wine than because Grand-Pa did! I can recall that
> C.J.J Berry had several recipes for these and recommended them.
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> Ray
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> > hi. i was told my grandad made tomato wine and onion wine back during
> > the depression and during ww2. i looked in m recipe book and sure enough
> > there is the recipe for each. i have tomatoes and onions in abundance
> > now and was wondering if anyone here has made it and what it was like.
> > im just about curios enough to try it,especially since granddad drank
> > it. best regards,lucas
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