Also, you can have a wine that’s ready to drink in as few as three months.
One of the nice things about fresh blueberries is that making blueberry wine gives you a chance to test and check out equipment, like your crusher and your press, that has been sitting idle for a year. In a commercial winery, blueberries behave a lot like grapes in that you don’t have to do anything special to process them. Our winery uses highbush blueberries because New Jersey is one of the leaders in growing this variety, but any variety — fresh or frozen — can be used.