#4 – Carbezzolo

Bottled (9) 325ml (from about 1 gallon) at unknown ABV on 16 January 2011.

“Il carbezzolo” is the Italian name of the so-called strawberry tree.  Its red-orange bumpy fruits ripen very late in fall, and although they’re a little mealy texture-wise, they’ve got quite an interesting flavor — especially in wine form!  This batch was from about 4 pounds of the fruit and made about a gallon of wine.  The hydrometer kept on hitting the bottom of the bucket, (and I didn’t have a graduated cylinder at the time), so the alcohol content of this is unknown.

Opened up the 2013 reserve bottle on 7 December 2013 for a sip…  Kind of a dark amber honey color and flavor, there’s quite a bit of residual sugars, so I’d have to guess that the alcohol content is probably “up there”.  It’s a pleasant after-dinner sipping wine.