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Wine

What is wine? Basically, wine is fermented fruit juice. Typically grapes are used to make wine because grapes have the right balance of sugars, acids and enzymes to make good wine [Footnote 2]. This is important because the workhorse behind wine is yeast. Yeast is a tiny organism that under the right conditions will consume simple sugars. As it consumes these sugars, one of the byproducts is alcohol.

It is possible to make wine out of blueberries [Blueberry Winery]; however, "it is not all that easy to make a good blueberry wine, according to most experts [Buy Blueberry Wine Section]." Part of the issue is one must add extra sugars to obtain enough alcohol to qualify as wine [Make Blueberry Wine Section][Blueberry Wine Recipe].