Perfection
The Great Head.
Why is it that grape wines are much more popular then any other fruit? What makes them so special?
Why grape wines?????????
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skadistic
Caomhanach
Flavour. That and the French have a plot afoot to do something with wine. I'm not sure what it is exactly but I don't trust those whiley francos.
Perfection
The Great Head.
But (provided the truth) what is it about grapes that makes them so much better flavored?
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Their sourness, I assume, would be responsible for the majority of the flavors that wine connisseurs love. And with that, I am no wine connisseur.
skadistic
Caomhanach
I think it has to do with sugar content as to why its a good alcohol. For the taste I can't really say. I don't like but you can get alot of different flavours from region to region and some times between individual plots of land in the same vineyard. Its popularity may also stem to its ease in production in parts of europe. You have the (cursed) French ( plotting) Who cultivated early on in a time when water wasn't safe to drink and a sweet drink was nice to have on a warm day.
wicshade
crazy, militant farmer
grapes are easier to harvest in large quanity then any other fruit, it takes much more labor and land to produce enough strawberies for wine.
Im not aware of any other fruit that can yield as much fruit with as little effort as grapes.
you could find just as good quality wine from something like gooseberies or even mulberries, you just have to know what is good.
Im not aware of any other fruit that can yield as much fruit with as little effort as grapes.
you could find just as good quality wine from something like gooseberies or even mulberries, you just have to know what is good.
Resveratrol
*shrugs*
Dunno... I personally drink wines of all sorts of varieties... but grape is certainly far and away the most available... after grape (which because of the sheer number of available ones and thus the range of flavours - which makes it easier to get hold of and enjoy) I would say Apfelwiens and sake (which is much milder warm)...
And of course... grape wines are well suited to blending with liquors like Crème de cassis... which I found really to be the only thing to was away EU law lectures with! (...this won't make any sense to anyone unfamiliar with EU law... w00t)
Dunno... I personally drink wines of all sorts of varieties... but grape is certainly far and away the most available... after grape (which because of the sheer number of available ones and thus the range of flavours - which makes it easier to get hold of and enjoy) I would say Apfelwiens and sake (which is much milder warm)...
And of course... grape wines are well suited to blending with liquors like Crème de cassis... which I found really to be the only thing to was away EU law lectures with! (...this won't make any sense to anyone unfamiliar with EU law... w00t)
innonimatu
the resident Cassandra
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I understand what you mean, but I thought wine, by definition, came from grapes. Is the word also used for other fermented drinks, in common english?
As for grape juice being popular, it's because it has been, historically, the easier fruit juice to obtain and ferment in large quantities and with little work. Sugar cane beats it easily, if you're looking just for ease and alcohol content, but when it was found wine was already culturally entrenched.
flamingzaroc121
Emperor
well in Greece and Rome grapes were easy to come by and then i guess they made wine out of that
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Unless otherwise specified, wine is generally made from grapes, but there are strawberry wines, cranberry wines, etc.
Cranberry wine? Why can I already feel that burning its way out of me... is it *absurdistly* sharp?
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Having never had it, but having had cranberry juice, I can only imagine that it would burn a little on the way down.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
There is dandelion wine, too.
flamingzaroc121
Emperor
have you ever heard of rice wine? that is a real wine made out of rice
Lucius Julius
Imperator Romanorum
The correct name for rice wine would be 'Sake.'
The correct name for rice wine would be 'Sake.'
Only in Japan... other rice wines have different names, therefore rice wine is correct
punkbass2000
Des An artiste
I'm sorry; you're asking why some particular comestible is better tasting than any other of its family?
MadScotsMan
The Ruler of Cattle
Because they made it from grapes first? Dunno, but I really like strawberry wine
