Fruit harvest in the Grand Valley begins with apricots in late June-early July, then Peach harvest in late July which runs into September, then apples and pears. Today we made an apricot and wine liqueur. Each quart jar contains fresh apricots and a bottle of our 2015 Gewurztraminer, 2 cups of vodka, sugar, cinnamon stick and vanilla bean. It's sippin' good now but will have better fruit flavor in a week. Also made a rhubarb liqueur for the first time. We bottle these in 175 and 375 ml. bottles.
You can make good liqueurs from most any fruit--we've done peach, cranberry, apple, watermelon, kiwi, mango and various combinations. Better than you can buy in any store!
In the pic we're also drying apricot pits to extract the seeds which look and taste just like almonds.
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