Saskatchewan Fruit Wine

We sipped our way through rhubarb, cherries, apples, black currents and saskatoon berries at a wonderful fruit wine night at Souleio in Saskatoon.

The fruit wines and the apple cidre are lovely elixirs produced locally by Living Sky Winery, while the berry-flavoured spirits are made in-house at Souleio. Pick your favourite fruit and enjoy!

"We don't want to hide the fact that it's fruit wine.

We want it to taste just like the fruit!"

- Sue Echlin, Living Sky Wines

The evening began with a presentation from Tyler Kaban, grad student at the University of Saskatchewan, who's made it his passion to breed a grape hybrid (using indigenous grapes crossed with wine varieties such as shiraz and pinor noir) that will thrive on the prairies. We'll be hearing more about that in the future...

Get a taste of this Saskatchewan

My friends Sue and Vance have begun squishing fruit at their new orchard winery near Perdue, Saskatchewan. Since I picked a












Star Phoenix photo by Peter Wilson

passel of raspberries for this wine (and some for me, too), I am very excited about this new development. Read about it in the Star Phoenix.

Sue and Vance are working with Canada's award-winning fruit wine maker, Dominic Rivard of Quebec. Now we have to wait patiently until summertime to try the Living Sky Winery raspberry, strawberry, cherry and rhubarb wines. Follow their progress on Sue's Tweets.