Monday, October 18, 2010

Good Wine For 3 Greenbacks a Bottle? It could be possible!

He had earlier remarked on the flavour of the wine, Mmmm. I paid circa 3 greenbacks for this bottle of wine in 2005, I told him. The juice, the yeast, one or two sachets of other ingredients including some fining agents, and even a package of oak.

It took me about a half hour to start the fermentation process in a food grade plastic pail. 7 days later, another half hour and my freshly started wine was racked ( siphoned ) into a secondary fermentation vessel made from glass and fit with an airlock. I permitted the wine to age in the carboy for a couple of months before bottling it. Wine libraries contain the entire history of civilization. The hope is that it'll attract more real hobbyists to the subject, because not like the overcrowding of favourite fishing holes, the more advocates of wine, the merrier. I am doing own a floor corker which makes the job of bottling and corking wine far easier, but others can mostly borrow or hire a corker from their local wine supplies shop. But over the course of time it became way easier to get wine commercially. Your wine will taste like young wine, and thats OK if that's how you like your wine. Avoid these errors, and you are virtually certain to have superb wine. If you like tasting good wine but do not like to pay fifteen greenbacks a bottle, have a discuss with the owner of your local wine supplies shop and think about making your own.

Beaune vineyards

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