Apples wine grape alternative

[grayzum]

Suuper excited at the moment. It's almost time to make apple wine. There is a massive glut of fruit around my area and I intend to make the most of it. My only thing is that I want to use something I can forage instead of concentrated grape juice or raisins for the base. Was thinking rose hips but I have read that rose hip wine takes ages to mature, which may be the
patient approach, but I would at leat like to try it at some point next year Any ideas or will I just have to use grape juice?

Also any tips would be great!

 

[DoctorCAD]

Why not simply use apples for everything?

No "base" needed.

 

[Yooper]

Why not simply use apples for everything?

No "base" needed.

That's what I do. I make my apple wine out of apples.

 

[grayzum]

Thanks guys. Lots of recipes about call for grape or raisins so its good to know I can get away with apples and have a great taste.

 

[jhoson]

Since you have a lot of apples, why don't you give a shot at Apfelwein too ?

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/man-i-love-apfelwein-14860/

 

[Yooper]

I like crabapples (here is my crabapple wine recipe: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f79/crabapple-wine-51010/) because they have a nice spicy apple flavor. I've also done this recipe with windfall apples, and as long as the apples are tart with great flavor, this recipe would work great for you. You don't want to use delicious apple varieties, but instead pie apples or cider apples.