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Follow Wayward Wine (WSET3) to tour the world's exciting vineyards, breweries, and distilleries, while discovering new drinks.

WORK.WINE.WORK.

Posted on November 21, 2011 by waywardwine

Work. Wine. Work. Wine. Work. Wine. The days blur my routine of tests and checks, morning and evening with my time at work. Selling and making the stuff eats my hours. But soon fermentation will stop. Soon all I will … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged alcohol, Beverages, Fahrenheit, fermentation, Finger Lakes, Food, home winemaking, homemade wine, Must weight, racking, Sugar, Vidal Blanc, wine, yeast | 4 Comments

BUBBLE.BUBBLE

Posted on November 14, 2011 by waywardwine

I’m not worried. Some yeasts take days to wake up. My blueberry wine, although crap, took days before fermentation started. So I don’t expect the vidal blanc that I bought 24 hours ago to have begun. Still exhausted from my … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged Australia, brix, California, Fahrenheit, fermentation, Must weight, Temperature, Texas, vidal blank, wine, yeast | Leave a comment

TIRED.TESTY.TROUBLE

Posted on November 7, 2011 by waywardwine

I top off my fermentation tank to six gallons and save the extra gallon: with which to sweeten, make sparkling, or do whatever the heck else strikes my various fancies. Last year’s vignoles wine was fine. I learned gobs of … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Canada, faries, fermentation, France, grapes, homemade wine, lalvin, must, Narbonne, PH, Sherlock Holmes, Vidal Blanc, vignoles, wine, yeast | 3 Comments

VIDAL.VINEYARD.VISIT

Posted on November 1, 2011 by waywardwine

Check your messages, your grapes might have evaporated. The night before heading to New York State’s Fingerlakes, my cell phone informs me that Fallbright grape growers sent back my seven gallons of cabernet sauvignon. The fruit was junk. Sure the … Continue reading →

Posted in CABERNET CRISES: MY FOURTH WINE, OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY | Tagged alcohol, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, fuzzy caterpillar, Geneva, Grape, grape must, home wine, home winemaking, Keuka Lake, New York, Seneca Lake, Vidal Blanc, wine | 2 Comments

Midas Touch Ancient Ale, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery

Posted on October 14, 2011 by waywardwine

Beer? I’m reviewing beer? Seriously? Well, it has been a few weeks. But I thought this was a wine log: one of thousands, where another Caucasian, male, lump of righteousness rambles about stuff in a glass to justify his drinking … Continue reading →