What's going on in your winery today..

[ukric]

Today I degassed, filtered and bottled a wine no 1 variant.

Not quite sure what category it fits into.

Basic wine number one with pomegranate added. Not dark enough to be a rose, not light enough to be a white. Dry though and smells nice, will be sampling tonight.

[NorthernWiner]

Just finished racking 10 gallons of Gewurztraminer and blended in süsse-reserve juice from the freezer. Yummy! This is a very tasty batch of wine.

Sadly, half of it belongs to my brother-in-law. I wonder if he would notice if I swapped out his half with 5 gallons of defiant, unclearable Plum wine?

[ms67]

Today I degassed, filtered and bottled a wine no 1 variant.

Not quite sure what category it fits into.

Basic wine number one with pomegranate added. Not dark enough to be a rose, not light enough to be a white. Dry though and smells nice, will be sampling tonight.

i think it was duffbeer that suggested to me that this would be a blush. i'm interested in your results and method ukrik as i'm about to start a couple of wine number 1's. one of which will use pomegranate juice. would you be kind enough to drop into my thread and lend me the benefit of your experience

http://www.winesathome.co.uk/forum/s...ht=wine+number

[lockwood1956]

well......

I got the 5 gallons of mourverdre and 5 gallons of maipo valley cab sauv raked filtered and bottled

got 30 bottles and one glass of the mourverdre which is extremely god

and 31 bottles of the cab sauv which is simply STUNNING!

they are both 3 to 4 years old now...the wait is totally worth it

busy day, just waiting for the frozen seyval juice (2 gals of) to thaw into 1 gal, so i can pitch the yeast in this icewine trial

[lockwood1956]

the small bottle between the two big ones is the yeast starter (D47) waiting for the Seyval to thaw


life is good

[wisp]

started off a nettle wine

[lockwood1956]

EEK!


where did you find nettles in the depth of winter?

[goldseal]

Having relocated the 'windery annexe' from the dining room to my office, today I'll mostly be wipng up spilt drops of must which are causing my arms to stick to the desk while I am typing

[wisp]

EEK!


where did you find nettles in the depth of winter?

I used nettle tea bags. I've used them before and they worked a treat.

btw, I used a ladle of a fermenting wine for the yeast and it is going great guns. So thanks everyone for your advice, help and pointers.

[kampervan]

trying the sparkle tops i found earlier on ebay. 12 bottles of elderflower now in bottles. so its wait and see

[hedgerow]

I have just demi johned three gallons of logun,raspberry and strawberry wine and I have also just demijohned two gallons of pineapple and honey wine, but mainly this week i have been sharpening my aurger to drill a few trees with , lol

[Duffbeer]

Racked 5 gal of # 1 with eflower to BBottle, smells great. Started 2 gal of lychee, never had great success with this so decided to stick strictly to Rich's original recipe, well apart from a little American white oak Started 5 gal of Coopers Irish Stout which smells out of this world, well not to the wife & kids, but to those who appreciate a good guinness... sublime
Also had a jolly good tidy up in the wine room, noted a slight whiff of acetification from a box in which I keep bungs airlock etc, so the decent ones got soaked in some VWP & the rest went in the bin.
Never realised how much crap I have accumulated over the last 12 months or so.

[hedgerow]

i know that one i went through all my gear over christmas and through a load away, i preferre big bubblers than than the smaller ones but i cant easily clean them out evan with a strong bleach solution so we had a massive throw out of bubblers and chemicals

[ms67]

I have just demi johned three gallons of logun,raspberry and strawberry wine and I have also just demijohned two gallons of pineapple and honey wine, but mainly this week i have been sharpening my aurger to drill a few trees with , lol

oooo, tree sap wine? something i've wanted to try for many years!

[wisp]

oooo, tree sap wine? something i've wanted to try for many years!

I was only reading about tree sap wine this afternoon ... knowing my luck, I'd kill the poor tree