Wine is made by fermenting the juices of grapes or other fruits such as apples (cider), cherries, berries, or plums.
The commercial kitchen that is part of the establishment turns out fresh-baked pies (apple, pumpkin, peach praline, strawberry rhubarb and cherry) at $13 each; apple cider doughnuts; and oatmeal, peanut butter and chocolate chip cookies.
Ingredients: 150g cherry or baby plum tomatoes 200ml cider vinegar (or enough to top up a jar) 2 tsp sugar (optional) 1 bay leaf 1 garlic clove, smashed 1 tsp black peppercorns You will need to work out how much vinegar you will need by putting your tomatoes in a screw-top jar and pouring in enough water to fill the jar.
£6.89 (454g), natureshealthbox.co.uk {8} Harrods Luxury Christmas Pudding This one contains Chilean flame raisins and Greek Vostizza currants, as well as brandy-soaked cherries, pecans, almonds, walnuts blended with Thatchers Cider, aged brandy, French cognac and rum.
It is cider-based, but distinguished by sour cherry mash, which contributes a tanginess that offsets and mellows the apples' sweetness.
As a skeptic of most of the claims made for herbs and dietary supplements, I had a hard time getting past the peripheral advice: garlic to get rid of fleas, cider vinegar to cure headaches and cherries to relieve gout.
You could start a meal, for instance, with the frothy, sweet bubbles of Henri Bellot, cidre bouché from France, and make your way to a clean, dry Farnum Hill cider from New Hampshire, with aromas of cherries and melon.
Dual Spires is famous for its cinnamon pie and apple cider, as Twin Peaks was famous for cherry pie and "damn fine" coffee.
Here too, depending on the day, may be crisp daikon and jicama, like a heap of shredded snow ($6.50), and a stinging slaw of red cabbage and carrots, slaked with apple cider vinegar and as lurid as maraschino cherries ($4.99).
The Morello cherry, grown to make liqueur by a neighbouring distiller of cider brandy, is so tart that birds will not touch it.
Fruit wines, derived from fruits other than grapes, include cider, made from apples; perry, produced from pears; plum wine and cherry wine; and wines made from various berries.
