Blackberry Wine

This I started on 9th August 2002 following a recipe I found on Jack Keller's excellent site

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While taking the dog for a walk, we found that the blackberries were beginning to ripen. So we thought we'd get in first before the local bird population and got picking arriving home with enough blackberries to make 3 gallons of wine with some left over. Rather than going to all the effort of sealing and freezing the remainder we threw them in as well. I had a look on Jack's site for a recipe and decided to go for the "heavy-bodied" recipe as that is the sort of wine style that we most like.

Followed all the instructions to the letter and it's bubbling away nicely (as is another gallon I've just started!) There are so many blackberry bushes in our local area I will have plenty more blackberry wine bubbling before the elderberries are ready!!

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