Banana Wine

Never heard of it, per se, but have noticed that bananas are a suggested supportive ingredient in some other fruit wine recipes.

I do make fruit wines with a friend, but the point is to make something good out of all the free fruit available from our and some of our friends’ properties.

I had one in January actually. We were in St. Pete and went to Florida Orange Grove winery were they made wines from Tangelo, Mango, Grapefruit, Carrot, Key Lime, and yes Banana.

100% fruit wines, not using a grape base. And they used as much Florida grown fruit as possible. I remember the girl said they bought blackberries.

The wines were all well made, clean, and tasted exactly like the fruit they were made of. The banana wine was like melting down a Runt (or other banana flavored candy) and drinking that, though not terribly sweet.

We were pretty impressed!

My grandfather used to make banana wine that he added raisins to. I never had it but my father swears that it used to taste like a gewurztraminer. Now I happen to love gewurtz and debate with my dad, who doesn’t like gewurtz, that there is no way they tasted alike. Alas, without ever having tasted it myself, I will just have to take his word for it!

You’d get really bent drinking something like that.

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Wow. I thought this was a thread about Beaujolais. newhere

Thought this was about Newton Unifiltered Chardonnay - the only white I’ve ever had that reminded me of bananas

That’s a contamination issue with diacetyl.

I had a plumpjack chard at the same time the 2002 cabs were released. Can’t remember the vintage of the chard. Probably 03 or so. It had wicked banana, and even the winery tasting note indicated big banana. Interesting wine. I bought zero of them.

I just recently found out about it’s existence and would like to try it. But I have not. I know there are “wineries” that make wine out of almost every fruit imaginable, but it seems that there are places that just do banana wine and it is more of a traditional product. That interests me more.

I’ve made two batches of it, one dry and one that was back sweetened. both were very good.