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,…
Welcome to the World of Winemaking! We started off this fun A to Z Challenge with A, of course – you can read it first if you want to, I’ll wait. For “B” in this challenge, we’re going to talk about Barrels and Bottles, and I couldn’t not do “B” without giving you my Blackberry Cabernet Recipe…
Welcome to the World of Winemaking! For those of you regulars, you already know that I’ve been making my own wine for a while now. For those who are new to me and my blog, if you’re interested in finding out why I started making my own wine, you can read all about it here….
I don’t know about you, but from where I’m sitting, this year has been flying by way too fast. Labor Day has come and gone, marking the end of summer. Sort of. We have a couple of weeks before the official end of summer, but technically it’s over. Of course Mother Nature hasn’t gotten the…
Last week I casually mentioned I made wine jelly over the weekend. Quite a number of you were intrigued by how this is done, so I’ve decided to repost the wine jelly method/recipe/fun just for you. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new on the Winemaking front since everything has pretty much been…
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 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…
