J

See below.......


"J" > wrote in message
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> Would it be possible to make cherry wine from Wild Black Cherry Trees?

Yes. But.....The usual caution about "wild things" is: If you ain't
absolutely,
positutely, sure of what it is, _don't_ use it !! Fruit is used to provide
flavor
in the wine. If it tastes good (and ain't poison), use it. If the flavor
is
mediocre or bad, that is how your wine will turn out. We reap what we
sow.

>My
> concern would be the development of Prussic Acid. Any advice here would
> be helpful. Thanks!

When fully ripe, the Prussic acid and other nasties are concentrated mostly
in
the pit. Don't_ever_allow cherry pits to get into your must/wine. Stem and
pit the cherries before you start !!

>
> Also, anyone with a good recipe for blackberry wine? I recently moved to
> a new home, and found that I am going to have hundreds of wild
> blackberries to harvest...

Jack Keller's site has more recipes than you could ever need. ;o) HTH

Frederick