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We've inherited a huge hawthorne tree and it's laden with berries.

Does anyone know if they can be turned into wine?

here one not tried it myself ...

Winemaking Ingredients:

4 pints hawthorn berries
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar
1 lb / 450 grams sultanas
Citric acid
Campden tablet
Yeast energizer
Water up to 1 gallon
Wine yeast

Winemaking Method:
Boil the hawthorn berries and place in fermentation bucket. Add the sultanas and sugar and stir vigorously to dissolve the sugar. When cool add the citric acid, yeast energizer and wine yeast. Cover and leave for five days in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain and put into a demijohn and fit an airlock to seal the jar.

Store in a warm place and allow the fermentation to work. When fermentation has ceased, rack the wine into a clean jar and place in a cooler environment and leave. When the wine is clear and stable siphon into bottles.

Makes a very nice jelly.

And you can use the blossoms to make a very nice white wine.

cor thanks!

you've made my day!

and you can make schnapps with the berries too- basically vodka and haws, but google to find the instructions.

hazel