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Munching Vidal Blanc on Keuka Lake, New York
Tag Archives: homemade wine
A Cut Above: Grape Vine Pruning at Home Vineyard
Sorry Internet, but between three weddings and a funeral I have been a bit busy. To bide your time, share in my moment of vine-cutting trauma:
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Tagged grapes, Home, home winemaking, homemade wine, vineyard, wine
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WORK.WINE.WORK.
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
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TIRED.TESTY.TROUBLE
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
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