Most folks think it would taste like apples and are surprised when it actually tastes like a very good grape based white wine. the bouquet and mouth feel are always surprisingly pleasant and white wine like too. apples really do make a great wine. I suspect the wine snobs prevent it from really taking off. It’s great to cook with too. My next project is going to be a 45-50 blackberry wine. Should be quite special.
The recipe book we started with was trying to make a fruit wine that tasted like a grape wine - light on the fruit flavor. We bumped up the amount of fruit used & got a true flavor. Of course, it depended on whether the fruit had a good flavor. One year the apples were rather blah, so I finished by adding Allspice to the carboy for a few months. That had a very light apple flavor & a nice spice. Most of our Melrose is really strongly apple-tasting.
We also do blackberry, among others. We have a big blackberry bramble on our property & we pick about 40 lbs a year, all going into wine. That usually makes a starting volume of 12 gallons. On cooler years (like this one has been) the berry flavor isn’t as good. But we’ve had a batch or two that were shear heaven! :-)