What's in your glass tonight?

[NorthernWiner]

Sangria tonight.

[Mamgiowl]

Planted 15,300 vines in 2006 . . . by hand!

Won't be doing that again . . .

Respect!!

I've been having a good old moan about planting 6 (shortish) rows of potatoes

[NorthernWiner]

Planted 15,300 vines in 2006 . . . by hand!

When you say "by hand" you don't mean with a spade and posthole digger, do you?

Good lord.

I have a couple dozen vines and I rented a powered auger because it seemed too much work to dig even that many holes.

[clayhill]

Yes . . . by hand . . . with spade . . . 8" deep.

At one point we had about 20 people working with us, and we managed to plant them all in 3 weeks.

As I said, won't be doing that again . . .

[wisp]

yes . . . By hand . . . With spade . . . 8" deep.

respect

[wisp]

Trying a couple of glasses of my carrot wine. Obviously it's far too young, it's only been bulk aging for 2 months, but it tastes quite nice. I was quite surprised as I was expecting it to taste like beeohelleelleohseekayess, as J says , after reading Bob's comments about how much he loves carrot wine.

I think I'll be bottling it in the next day or two as I need the fermenting bucket. Truth be told, I was bottling it tonight/last night when I was syphoning some off; in case it was so bad it was going to be used to clean the drains . It's okay, I have hopes for it.

[ms67]

last night a Talisker night-cap
tonight a pomegranate number 1

[ms67]

last year's wild blackberry, fruitiness improving, acidity ... still plenty but as the wine is coming together the acidity is becoming less of an issue. tonight it went down well with rich and fatty food.

[goldseal]

Finished the crash-diet yesterday, so we opened a commercial Rieling Gewurztraminer last night. Very nice

[NorthernWiner]

Opened the first post-bottle shock '09 Pinot Noir. When I first bottled it, I wasn't sure if I liked it or not, but it has definitely evolved. Probably won't open another until 6 months from now.

[goldseal]

A very young MFK. Not for pleasure, you understand, just checking how it is coming along. It tastes promising, but I made sure I didn't enjoy it at all

[spritzer]

A glass of the hint of strawberry number one wine I made...
I am not sure that the strawberries were even in the same postcode with this one, let alone the same DJ....
Still drinkable...and very quaffable, but not strawberry in any way

[wisp]

I'm supping a wee bit more of my carrot wine. I have kept sneeking jugs of the stuff out of the 5 gal container, so I'm presuming it's oxidised ... damn, I'm going to have to drink the darned stuff!

[NorthernWiner]

I opened a 375 ml bottle of '09 Syrah tonight out of curiosity. When Bob was here in December, we took a taste out of the barrel. At that time the tannin was strong enough to strip enamel from your teeth. I'm happy to say that it's softened up somewhat, but it's probably still a good three or four years away from being drinkable.

[ms67]

2006 McGuigan Shiraz
2003 Vina Albali