Best wine I have had was a homemade wine that the Hungarian exchange students brought back with them.
I went though a phase back in the UK of home made wine. It passed the time as a hobby should and you could drink it too.
Banana was nice smooth almost liquor style, pale yellow wine. Back in the day of your Independent local green grocer' mine would give me for free half a dozen unsellable nearly black bananas'.
Autumn was best for free fruit for wine making and it was a nice drive out into the country and gave the kids...always competative...something to do. Blackberries, by the bucket from the side of the road.
Elderberries...which is a somewhat long term thing it has to sit for 6mths min, but it comes out about 16-17% proof.
Which is about as high as you can go without distillation as it kills your yeast.
My personal favourite was Rosehip, which gave a delicate pale pink wine.
We were driving home one afternoon for visiting my Auntie in N Wales and the kids were playing up in the back, no car seats to tie them into then...he's looking at me, thump, he's on my side, thump, he's looking out of my window, thump, he's breathing my air, thump. Etc.
So I saw a footpath sign and stopped to let them run off some excess energy - let's go up here, first to the end wins...we've all had this.
Half way up the windy path there was a patch of wild roses over this fenced in little field about the size of a penalty box...maybe it was an old abandoned garden, who knows.
Full of wildish old style roses...proper roses, like very posh but wild bamble bushes, only with pink dog roses...none of your hybrid Floribunda scentless Tea roses stuff.
It was filled with ripe rosehips - and a carpet of multicoloured butterfly, I counted 7 different kinds...some probably rare but who knows.
Back to the car for bags and anything we could put Rosehips in and over the fence we went.
Kept the kids quiet for an hour and de energised them for the drive home.
