Rose Hip Wine
Rose hip wine is a fruit wine. It can be made from fresh or dried rose hips. To produce this beverage, the rose hips are fermented in syrup with yeast and citric acid, creating an extract. This technique is used with only a few other types of fruit wine, including blackthorn (sloe), hawthorn, and rowan.
One of the factors that affect the taste of this wine is the necessity of removing seeds from the rose hips before fermentation. This prevents a bitter flavor in the wine but is quite time-consuming.
The best kind of wine produced from rose hips is strong and sweet, with at least two years of storage.
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