A few weeks ago, we had some neighbors over for Friday night dinner, and as usual, they brought us a bottle of wine.  This time, however, he picked out something unusual – a bottle of pomegranate wine.

I had heard of pomegranate wines before, but honestly, I was never curious enough to try and find it to try it.  However, since someone was nice enough to bring a bottle to me, it went on to the table Friday night. 

I think I have to agree with our dear departed Curmudgeon Critic Daniel Rogov.  While the Morad Pomegranate product is a fairly pleasant fermented pomegranate juice product, Daniel felt that the term “wine” belonged to products made from grapes (I would even restrict it to products made from wine grapes, thereby excluding so-called Concord grape wines).

This is a great beverage to serve over ice in summer months – the tart red fruit acidity of the pomegranates would work beautifully over ice in hot weather, but it really doesn’t work as a table wine type product.