Country wines are fermented beverages made from edible foods produced in the garden.  The source of material may be vegetables, fruits, roots, tubers, herbs or leaves.  As the famous winemaker Harry Gilham says, ‘If you can eat it, you can drink it”. I have tasted Harry’s grass wine (‘not collected in the dog run’) as well as his Christmas Pudding wine (‘I found it at the back of the freezer when I was cleaning it out’). Perhaps that’s not strictly grown in the garden but who cares.  Both were delicious and if you closed your eyes you could pick the taste of the source.

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