Every Monday, discover new wines, regions, and ways to understand this fermenting sea.
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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
Tag Archives: achilles
CORKING.ABOUT
Midnight nears. I have not packed for our trip. My wine rests in thirty bottles but they need closure, literally and figuratively. Because I saved bottles, this vignoles venture will not see me experimenting with screw-caps. Although, I really really … Continue reading
Posted in OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY, VIGNOLES VENTURING
Tagged achilles, bottle, bottling, Chiron, eleveur, Finger Lakes, grapes, home winemaking, Recreation, Screw cap, vacation, vignoles, wine, Wine bottle
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FILTERED.FINISH
A ten day vacation looms. The wine tank can’t come with me. It’s time to bottle it. That or turn our fridge into a cellar. Bottling my first and second wines required crafty recycling. This would be no different. Once … Continue reading
Posted in OENOLOGICAL ODYSSEY, VIGNOLES VENTURING
Tagged achilles, Beverages, bottle, filtering, Ohio, running out of time, Shopping, South Essex, Sparkling wine, wine, winemaking
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PHEONIX.DEFROSTING
Days of distraction divide me from my blueberry defrosting.Wine equipment languishes like a cross-dressed Achilles, forced into hiding by his mother. Wigged in lint, powdered in dust, for too long it endures aimless domesticity. Thus, as a feigned Odysseus, I … Continue reading
