Home Winemaking – ‘R’ for Racking, and Riddle me this…I mean Riddling! #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘R’ for Racking, and Riddle me this…I mean Riddling! #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! I’m having fun alphabetizing the home winemaking process – you can find the links to the other letters at the end of this post. Today’s letter is “R”, so we’ll talk about Racking and Riddling. What is racking? The process is quite straight forward. Wine from one carboy above another is…

Home Winemaking – ‘C’ for Color, Clarity, Carboys and Cherry Wine! #AtoZChallenge
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Home Winemaking – ‘C’ for Color, Clarity, Carboys and Cherry Wine! #AtoZChallenge

Welcome to the World of Winemaking! If you missed them, we started off this fun A to Z Challenge with A and B, of course – you can read A here first if you want to, and B is over  here… I’ll wait. For “C” in this challenge, we’re going to talk about Color and Clarity,…

Sassy Homemade Wine – The One About Racking
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Sassy Homemade Wine – The One About Racking

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…