Over the years as I’ve expanded my experimentation and varieties of winemaking, I’ve also fine tuned the finishing process. For me. When I start new batches of wine, during the fermentation process – or sometimes I’ll wait until the bulk aging time frame – I’ll order bottles, corks, shrink caps and make sure I have…
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about Winemaking – 12 weeks, to be exact. Winemaking requires a lot of patience, especially during the part in between the final fermentation and racking to bottling. Rather than bottle sooner and have the wine age in their individual bottles, I prefer to bulk-age the wine before bottling so…
It was a dark and stormy night…wait, no it wasn’t! I had always been curious about how wine was made. Sure, I made all the fun winery trips when I used to live out in Seattle, and a ‘vacation’ was a road trip to visit a bunch of wineries, enamored by the complicated process of…
A few weeks ago I posted the recipe and starting process of making Apple Wine from fresh apples. Today you get to seen the ‘next steps’ in that process, finally. This is when the fermenting started: This is the ‘must’ ready to be transferred into a carboy: Doesn’t look quite as ‘appetizing’, does it? I…
Since Mother Nature sent us a major cold front this past week which made the dining room and kitchen lower than the optimal temperature for the primary fermentation of the Apple Wine, I’m going to let it sit and do it’s thing for another week. It’s still actively fermenting, just at a slower rate. So…
Making Apple Wine from fresh apples can be labor-intensive, but the end result has been more than rewarding. Since Mother Nature messed with the production of apples on our apple tree this year, and my 5-on-1 apple tree is too young yet to produce very many apples, I was in a bit of a conundrum…
Mother Nature pulled a fast one on us this year, the cooler-than-normal summer didn’t bode well for the apples or grapes. Well, add to that the aggressive nature in which we hacked pruned the apple tree last fall quite possibly had something to do with the fact we hardly got any apples off the tree…
