What's going on in your winery today..

[Rich]

Icewine is a super sweet desert style wine, originally made from pressing frozen grapes to just get the sugary juice out.

Steve (northernwiner) has done a tutorial on it on here. I've made the Kenridge icewine style kit and the Winexpert Riesling one, they are both very good, if you like a sweet wine. We have ours either with a desert or as the desert.

[NorthernWiner]

I'm making ice wine out of apple juice this year.

[lockwood1956]

I have 2 gallons of high acid juice in my freezer awaiting thawing to 1 gal and firing an icewine up

[hedgerow]

i and going through all my equipent tonight and having a very big sort out of all my gear so it can be assessed as either keep or bin. its amazing how many hydromiters you collect over the years i will see if they are any good

[goldseal]

My Lychee is finally getting going, after almost 5 days of battle. I have been experimenting with dechlorinating our tap water with sulphite/time and I think I overdid the dose.

A couple of small wine racks added to the understairs cupboard - now 200+ bottles there. I have a 96 bottle rack to shoehorn into the garage tomorrow. Somehow.

[wisp]

Icewine is a super sweet desert style wine, originally made from pressing frozen grapes to just get the sugary juice out.

Steve (northernwiner) has done a tutorial on it on here. I've made the Kenridge icewine style kit and the Winexpert Riesling one, they are both very good, if you like a sweet wine. We have ours either with a desert or as the desert.

Thanks for the information. Icewine sounds very interesting, I'll have to try some. Cheers

[wisp]

Stabilising 6.5 gal pineapple wine and 6.5 gal cranberry and bluebeerry. Bottled 5 gal mild. Racked 1 gal plum wine. Hope to start 5 gal mild tonight - this is a job I keep intending to do but life keeps getting in the way!

[ms67]

3 gallons of parsnip wine happily bubbling away after moving to secondary last night. hoping to get around to degassing and/or racking various blackberry brews during the day.

[lockwood1956]

Big racking/filtering/bottling day today

[goldseal]

Nothing

I'd hoped to be doing some bottling, but I have spent all day preparing to leave for two days' work at Rockingham. At least I'm in a Holiday Inn rather than the usual TravelHutch.

[NorthernWiner]

At least I'm in a Holiday Inn rather than the usual TravelHutch.

TravelHutch? Sounds like a rabbit cage.

[wisp]

Nah, there's more room in a rabbit cage!

[goldseal]

Nah, there's more room in a rabbit cage!

Exactly. The last room was so small that I had to go outside to turn around.

(Steve, I think they are technnically known as Travelodges, but my version is more descriptive )

[Rich]

I got my late addtion strawberry racked off into a DJ today. Smells ok, no off smells anyway which is good.

[wisp]

Exactly. The last room was so small that I had to go outside to turn around.

(Steve, I think they are technnically known as Travelodges, but my version is more descriptive )

Yeah, and you get free lettuce too