Category Archives: MYTHMAKING: CRAFTING MY FIRST WINE (February – March 2010)

In the beginning there was Canadian Kit Wine and a former Classical Archaeologist-turned Wine Sales Associate.

MYTHMENDING.ENDING

Posted on March 9, 2010 by waywardwine

The final battle nears. Since late January, I have coerced grape juice into wine. Yet if I don’t begin bottling, it all risks ruin. Pumping oxygen out has carried my wine through weeks of racking. Now I must use the … Continue reading →

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ROTA.FORTUNAE

Posted on February 26, 2010 by waywardwine

Like fate’s turning wheel, my burgeoning Barbaresco cycles to and fro between the glass carboy and fermenting tank, uncertain of its future. For the last week, the Chitosan bonded with the Kieselsol pulling the proteins, dead yeasts and excess junk … Continue reading →

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TABULA.RASA

Posted on February 23, 2010 by waywardwine

Now the step of clearing the wine lay before me. Last week had let the remnant CO2 bubble away. Windows had been cracked and the sun blocked, freezing my wife, but keeping the wine from jumping into a bacterial outbreak … Continue reading →

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SPLASH SPLASH DEGASS

Posted on February 6, 2010 by waywardwine

In the evening, after the yeasts had quieted, I set about setting about my secondary fermentation. I emerged from the sulfuric hot spring (i.e.: cleaning my equipment in the bathroom). Once the reek of rotten eggs lifted and my various … Continue reading →

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FERMENTATION PERSUASION

Posted on January 26, 2010 by waywardwine

Yeast added. Lid shut. Airlock, well, locked. I wait. Austen’s Anne Elliot knows how I feel: suffering quietly alone, waiting upon your sugars to become alcohol takes the patience of a truly goodwilled and kind nature. Yeasts, like most gentlemen, … Continue reading →