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Article #288: The Italians taught the English how to make wine.

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You can't eat them but you can make a fruit, and at the same time plant some
lovely wine out of elderberries though, vineyards. So the noble art of
if you know how. You certainly would not wine-making was taken to England. Well,
fancy eating a raw English elderberry, actually, that's entirely wrong. The
sloe, quintz or indeed many of the other locals had been making wine for a few
multifarious ingredients English wine thousand years, although they, as today,
makers transform into their "wine". To be were considered a Nation of beer
quite honest nor would I, but many people drinkers, "wine" was made from berries.
do drink the wine. When you put a bit of honey or sugar into
Not even 20% of home made wines in a pot of fruit it will ferment from the
England are even "just about drinkable" natural yeast in the fruit. If the fruit
to someone who has grown up in the lands has a high sugar (fructose) content then
of the grapevines; some, around 10% don't it will ferment itself, but if like
give you a massive chemical hangover; elderberries the fruit is bitter and with
some are quite nice but too new; but a low fructose content it will need a bit
around 5% are really very pleasantly of a helping hand from sugar and yeast.
wine-like. The Romans used to do the The Romans, when they invaded Britain,
same. brought with them the ability to make
Many people nowadays get a taste for the much better wine than the English.
chemicals (if they drink a lot of However, even the best Roman wine made
home-made wine) and so don't notice them, without grapes was not as good as the
whilst if one is not used to the taste "real thing", so English vineyards were
it's horrid. Some, but very few, started and the Romans taught the English
wine-makers at home never use chemicals how to make wine properly. Decent grapes
or clearing mediums. They just wait until really don't need sugar or yeast, as
it's ready. The Romans used to do the these are in the fruit itself.
same. Of course English wine, even 2000years
The chemical user will go to the ago, was not as good as Italian wine, but
supermarket and get his Pack of "home it certainly cheered up many a Roman
made wine", with all the instructions as soldier consigned to the freezing wastes
to how to carry out this chemical process of Hadrian's Wall. However, when they
in the least possible time and to gain returned to Rome after a few years
the maximum alcohol advantage out of the service they didn't bother to take any
finished item (I hesitate to call it elderberry wine with them. They were
wine). It will taste disgusting but will going home to the real thing.
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