#26 – Rainier Cherry

Bottled (22) 325ml and (6) 750ml (from 5 gallons) at 20.5% ABV on 21 October 2012.

The other half of the cherries I bought via charity were Rainier cherries.  I would have been remiss if I hadn’t at least attempted to make wine out of our iconic Washington cherry!  Whereas the Bing cherries are deep red (as is the wine made from them), Rainier cherries are more orange/blush/yellow colored — and predictably, the result is a wine that’s amber colored.  There was apparently also not as much sugar in the Rainier cherries, so it only reached 20.5% ABV and finished drier with a little bit of a bite to it.

This wine works well as an aperitif or  dessert wine…  Perhaps it’d even go well with vanilla ice cream?  Hm, I’ll have to try that…