Wild Winemaking: Easy and Adventurous Recipes Going Beyond Grapes

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These 148 easy and creative home winemaking recipes forgo specialty grapes and instead use a range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Sake, and Vanilla Rose Petal. Making wine at home just got more fun, and easier, with Richard Bender's experiments. Whether you're new to winemaking or a seasoned pro, you'll find this innovative manual accessible, thanks to its focus on small batches that require minimal equipment and use an unexpected range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. The ingredient list is irresistibly curious. How about banana wine or dark chocolate peach? Plum champagne or sweet potato sake? Chamomile, sweet basil, blood orange Thai dragon, kumquat cayenne, and even cannabis rhubarb wines have earned a place in Bender's flavor collection. Go ahead, give it a try. AUTHOR: Richard W. Bender has been making wine for more than 30 years with homegrown, foraged, and store-bought fruits and vegetables. A former nurseryman, he is the author of Wild Winemaking and Bountiful Bonsai and has written for Horticulture, Field & Stream, and The Herbal Companion. SELLING POINTS: . An easier, more fun approach for the home winemaking hobbiest . The artisanal fermented beverage movement is booming . Small-batch recipes offer the perfect opportunity to experiment with flavors and methods

Richard Bender has been making wine for more than 30 years with ingredients he's harvested from his own gardens, foraged in the wild, and purchased at groceries and farmers' markets. A former nurseryman, Richard has strong relationships with botanic gardens across the U.S. and nearly 50,000 social media followers.He is the author of Bountiful Bonsai and has written for Horticulture, Field & Stream, and The Herbal Companion. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.

"Finally! Easy-to-follow home winemaking recipes that combine common sense and fun." -- Laurie Neverman, of Common Sense Homesteading "A beautiful ode to the magical meeting of the harvest and friendly microbes. If you have tried your hand at fermentation and love fruit and flowers, you must try the wines in this book!" -- Hannah Crum Alex LaGory, best-selling authors of The Big Book of Kombucha and founders of KombuchaKamp.com