[Sca-cooks] Blueberry/ Gooseberry Wine Documentation?

[david friedman]

>De Nola mentions sour pomegranate wine ("vino de granadas agras" -- wine
>made from sour pomegranates).  That would certainly require added sugar to
>ferment, but sugar was much more available in Spain than in England. 
>OTOH, he mentions it as an ingredient in a sauce.  I have not seen it listed
>as a beverage in either of the two Spanish dietary manuals I've read.  It may
>have been only used as a cooking wine.
>
>
>Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann

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Is it possible that "vino" is being used loosely for an unfermented 
fruit juice? Pomegranate juice (both sweet and sour) is mentioned in 
the 13th c. Andalusian Manuscrito Anonimo.

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