Tomato wine?

TZ-OH6 · July 23, 2008

I see references to tomato wine here and there. Is it as nasty as it sounds? Somehow I don't think it would taste like tomato juice with a shot of vodka.

tessa · July 23, 2008

i haven't had it...but i've got a recipe for it.
the thing about wine...is that sometimes it does, but mostly it doesn't...taste like the main ingredient. grape wine does not taste like grapes AT ALL, right?
a good orange wine actually tastes like white grape wine, while mango wine tastes like mangoes! hooray for that!

i'm afraid of tomato wine...so i haven't made any...but if someone dared me, i might.

(coffee wine, btw, is dead easy to make...tastes like coffee...and you can get drunk while remaining totally alert)

Little_Rhody · July 23, 2008

I am bottling 3 gallons of tomato wine this weekend (hopefully). I will let you all know how it is. This my first batch of tomato wine. I've tasted it during racking and it was pretty good. I make dandelion wine and meads mostly.

**carolyn137** · July 24, 2008

Riesentraube was used as early as the mid- 1800's to make wine and someone I knew made wine from it and it was a pale yellow and absolutely delicious, more like a pale Sherry.

I have the recipe somewhere but there are certainly lots of tomato wine recipes on the internet as well.

Bobbisox · August 3, 2008

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Originally Posted by Little_Rhody

I am bottling 3 gallons of tomato wine this weekend (hopefully). I will let you all know how it is. This my first batch of tomato wine. I've tasted it during racking and it was pretty good. I make dandelion wine and meads mostly.

One reason we are growing as many tomatoes this year is that my husband wants to make tomato wine. He found a recipe somewhere. Question, after racking are you going to just do a secondary, or a treciary? We do that for the meads, our passion fruit mead from the rampant passion fruits are ready in 18 months; the passion wine (which I think is awful) is ready in about 12 months so tomatoes have me confused. I will follow your comments with interest.

clara · July 25, 2008

Aunt Ruby's German Green was also used to make vine of. I'm growing it this year (it's still unripe), but I don't plan to make vine.
clara

July 23, 2008	#1
TZ-OH6 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mid-Ohio Posts: 848	Tomato wine? I see references to tomato wine here and there. Is it as nasty as it sounds? Somehow I don't think it would taste like tomato juice with a shot of vodka.

July 23, 2008	#3
Little_Rhody Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: RI Posts: 106	I am bottling 3 gallons of tomato wine this weekend (hopefully). I will let you all know how it is. This my first batch of tomato wine. I've tasted it during racking and it was pretty good. I make dandelion wine and meads mostly. __________________ carolyn

July 24, 2008	#4
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	Riesentraube was used as early as the mid- 1800's to make wine and someone I knew made wine from it and it was a pale yellow and absolutely delicious, more like a pale Sherry. I have the recipe somewhere but there are certainly lots of tomato wine recipes on the internet as well. __________________ Carolyn

July 23, 2008	#2
tessa Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: perth, western australia Posts: 1,031	i haven't had it...but i've got a recipe for it. the thing about wine...is that sometimes it does, but mostly it doesn't...taste like the main ingredient. grape wine does not taste like grapes AT ALL, right? a good orange wine actually tastes like white grape wine, while mango wine tastes like mangoes! hooray for that! i'm afraid of tomato wine...so i haven't made any...but if someone dared me, i might. (coffee wine, btw, is dead easy to make...tastes like coffee...and you can get drunk while remaining totally alert)

July 25, 2008	#6
clara Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Germany Posts: 1,351	Aunt Ruby's German Green was also used to make vine of. I'm growing it this year (it's still unripe), but I don't plan to make vine. clara