Source: Jill Warren Lucas, NEWS & OBSERVER, 10/10/17


Kether Smith knows what most people think when they hear of fruit wine and cider. They expect a cloying sweetness, or, at best, an effervescence more suggestive of sugary soda than fruit.“We meet people all the time at the farmers markets who say, 'No, thanks, I don’t like sweet wines,’ ” says Smith, who operates Botanist and Barrel in a converted warehouse on the family-owned Cedar Grove Blueberry Farm in Orange County.

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