"For some time now I've been wanting to make a light bodied /
dry wine from Wild-Maine (low bush) Blueberries. Do you have a
recipe that I could use?" Brian Carnwath, Williamson, New York
Blueberries, like cranberries, bilberries, whortleberries,
farkleberries, grouseberries, deerberries, mayberries,
cowberries, and huckleberries, belong to the genus Vaccinium
(although most botanists break huckleberries out into a seperate
subgenus--Gaylussacia). There are dozens of species and
varieties of blueberries in the United States and Canada ranging
from the Atlantic to the Pacific and the Gulf Coast to the
Hudson Bay, but basically there are four groupings of wild
blueberries--the dwarf, low (lowbush), high (highbush) and bog
(or swamp) blueberry. Their plants can vary from a sprawling
groundcover a few inches (dwarf) to three feet in height
(lowbush) to large bushes 12 feet high (highbush) or to near-
trees as large as 15 feet tall (bog). The fruit of the lowbush
blueberry varies in color among species from blue to