The Rural Voice, 1980-12, Page 26ATTENTION HORSEMEN
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PG. 24 THE RURAL VOICE/DECEMBER 1980
that Ontario grape growers were then
growing French hybrids."
"The problem with our Canadian wine
is that our natural grape is Lambrusca,"
explained Gord. "The wine leaves a
fruity -foxy taste - an unpleasant after-
taste - and it doesn't make as pleasant a
flavour of wine as the vinefera." The
vinefera grape is not natural to this
climate, and is a hybrid. "The experi-
mental stations and some of the wineries
and farms had been experimenting with
these grapes and at the time the
concentrate we were using was imported.
He and Ruby tried several kinds of
concentrates including French, Spanish
and Romanian. and report they didn't like
any of them.''A friend told me he was
growing some hybrids. We got some from
him - three or four bushels - and made
our first batch from grapes."
ORIGINAL WINE
When they tried their "orginal" wine a
year later (and a year before they actually
prefer to drink it) they liked it. Now.
along with other friends and wine
makers, they make a regular trip each
September to Beamsville on the Niagara
peninsula to purchase grapes. After
trying their hand at white wine, and
being generally unimpressed by it, the
Hills produce just red wine now.
The Carl Seeger winery, which operat-
es from vineyard to finished product,
delivers both red and white wine. The
white grape, the Niagara, grows well in
the Huron County climate. This year,
however, because of fluctuations in the
weather and a lack of sun in September,
Carl didn't get the superior quality he
normally gets, and the yield was down.
While the quality of the grape is
crucial, there are many other essential •
components to making a top quality wine.
One is the aging process. "A fruit wine
matures earlier than a wine made out of
grapes," explained Carl. "Anything you
make is drinkable after six months, even
four, but the quality isn't what it should
be when you drink it early. I recommend,
for red wine, two full years to be a good
quality: for white, at least a year and
fruit, depending on the type of fruit, after
six months."
DIFFERENT FRUITS
Both wine makers have tried several
different fruits for wine, including red
currant, elderberry, rhubarb and many
others. The tendency is to produce a
sweeter dessert wine with these fruits,
but neither the Hills nor the Seegers are
especially fond of sweet wines. "1 don't
like anything sweet," asserted Carl.
Kathe shares his feeling, although she
adds occasionally in social situations he
will sip a sweeter spirit.
When he and Ruby first started
drinking wine, Gord explains, they went
to the sparkling variety, but they gradual -
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