Tag Archives: bottle

Port, Warre’s Late Bottled Vintage, Portugal 2000

Posted on March 28, 2011 by waywardwine

While bitter winter still slips through window seams, turn to Port. Nothing warms an evening’s end better. Styles range from cheap and charming non-vintage Ruby to decades-old Vintage Ports. Somewhere in the middle are Late Bottled Vintage Ports, like Warre’s 2000 LBV. British … Continue reading →

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CORKING.ABOUT

Posted on February 28, 2011 by waywardwine

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 | 2 Comments

FILTERED.FINISH

Posted on February 24, 2011 by waywardwine

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 →

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BLUEBERRY.BOUND

Posted on September 7, 2010 by waywardwine

A week ago I added Sparkolloid Powder to my blueberry wine must. This blend of crab-friendly clay and polysaccharides sunk the floating yeasts and blueberry bits by positively charging them. Now three inches of detritus and less than a gallon … Continue reading →

Posted in BLUEBERRY BOUND: CRAFTING MY SECOND WINE (AUGUST 2010) | Tagged alcohol, blueberry, blueberry wine, bottle, bottling, chaptalization, drinking, fermentation, filtering, fining, grapes, haze, must, sediment, splits, wine, winemaking | 1 Comment

PREMATURE.AGGRANDIZATION: Stoutridge Winery

Posted on April 15, 2010 by waywardwine

Our wine tour of the Hudson “gunks” off first with Stoutridge Winery. The winery sits at the end of a pit. On the right, a drainage pipe pours into what aspires to be a pond. Small plots of vines run … Continue reading →