What's going on in your winery today..

[mark g]

Just started two gallons of Banana wine
it's fermenting already

[NorthernWiner]

FINALLY, finally, finally.... my California Syrah has arrived. It actually arrived on the 13th, but I've been in Florida for much of the last 10 days so I had the supplier store them in his freezer until I got back home.

This is the longest I have ever waited for grapes. Any longer and I would've had to put 2013 down as the vintage date. The one consolation is that 2012 has been declared one of those once-in-a-decade outstanding vintages for California grapes. I'm excited to get started!

[Kjp]

[QUOTE=Rich;61337]Today/tonight whenever...

I've just put on a black cherry port style wine using a Youngs kit ,
Yep,I have one of those on the go and it's looking good,just checked my ferments all ok it seems,been thinking of what to start after Christmas ,going to get a few more dj,s,and get a few more on the go,happy Xmas every one.KP.

[mark g]

Just started 1 gallon of rose & 1 gallon of white wine,from Multi-vitamin juice drink.

[Cellar_Rat]

..amusing to see must steaming as it went through the press.

Missed a photo opportunity there

[fatbloke]

Just finished posting at my blog, as I've mixed up my first batch of "Christmas Pudding Mead". I haven't "stolen anyones thunder", as I thought it good manners to explain that all I'm actually doing is to follow the crimbo pud wine as closely as I can, but where the recipe says to use sugar, I'm using honey.

I couldn't believe my luck, while digging out the ingredients though. I thought I was gonna have to use K1-V1116 as I don't normally have any Gervin yeasts, but "bugger oi dewn ded" on searching through my stocks what do I find staring up at me ? A pack of Gervin GV4...... I've got no recollection of buying it, but I must have.

I couldn't find any white grape juice, so had to make do with red and I didn't have any bentonite either, but as that's got to be in there for assisting the eventual clearing, I'll worry about that later.

I do hope this comes out as good as everyone says it does, as I'm gonna see if I can pick up some more cheap crimbo puds when the supermarkets put them out as "knock downs"......

And yes, I can see the parallels between the first stages of this recipe and a bucket of puke too

[NorthernWiner]

And yes, I can see the parallels between the first stages of this recipe and a bucket of puke too

Lol...

I haven't tried the recipe myself - mostly because Christmas pudding is something you just don't find in the states. But I remember tasting someone else's (I don't think it was Bob's. Karl's maybe?). The flavor was quite good, though I can see where some might find the color to be a little off-putting.

In my own winery, my syrah/shiraz is just reaching peak. So far it's been on the skins for 7 days now. I've been trying to keep the temperature down a bit on this wine, as I favor more restrained syrahs with the fresh fruit attributes you get from fermenting at lower temps.

[goldseal]

Not much going on here. Everything is just sitting there, clearing, malolactic-ing or just ageing (like me). Work is taking all my time (which is why I haven't posted for ages), so nothing much will happen for a few weeks.

[mark g]

I have just started a two gallon batch of very cheap fruit juice,wine it works out at only £2.70 per gallon.
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[Rich]

Tidy up in my winery today! Fed up of tripping over stuff. I can now see the floor and bottles are on racks and in boxes. Next is to sort out the boxes of 'bits' and drawers of stuff.

[robwrx]

Did a spot of bottling today. 1 gallon each of GF11 Sangiovese and GF11 second run Chianti. My stocks took a hammering over Christmas so I need to get a few more bottling sessions under way.

[goldseal]

Still nothing going on here. Flat-out work until end-Feb I think. Apologies for not contributing to the Forum more.

[Cellar_Rat]

Drinking.

[Uncleboobot]

I shall be transferring a Barolo kit wine into DJs this evening. I'll be keeping this one til next Xmas at the very least.

[SiSandrine]

Have transferred all my 2012 wines to the uninsulated shed for a spot of cold stabilisation. Hoping for some sub-zero temperatures this week. Am very relieved as I was worried that no cold weather would be forthcoming.

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