Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in chocolate wine, mead, Recipes on Mar 25th, 2008
I mentioned this one yesterday, when I was commenting on existing wine and mead recipes that used chocolate. Here it is in its entirety: Chocolate Mead aka Liquid Sex Mead Lord Rhys, Capten gen y Arian Lloer, Barony of Andelcrag, Midrealm This recipe may be quoted, borrowed, copied, or stolen by anyone under three conditions. [...]
Posted in chocolate wine on Mar 24th, 2008
Vote For Washington Winemaker! Grapeseek is a directory of grape and wine related links, and they are having a vote for their top ten. I would love it if you voted for Washington Winemaker. Click here to cast your vote. I discussed two possible styles of chocolate wine, in my most recent post on the [...]
Posted in commercial wine, tasting on Mar 19th, 2008
I’ve written about Olympic Cellars before. They’re the winery being threatened by the United State Olympic Committee for using the word “Olympic” in their name. They also make a cranberry wine. Well the Lady of the House and I have recently tried some of their wine, and the Dungeness Red (a 2004 Lemberger) really stands [...]
Posted in mead on Mar 18th, 2008
I’ve been discussing the effects of processing on honey with commenters Eric and Dick Adams. You can check it out for yourself here. Liquid honey that you buy has been processed by the beekeeper and possibly by a packer. Knowing what they do and why can help us understand how it affects our honey and [...]
Posted in storage and aging, tasting on Mar 12th, 2008
An open bottle of wine and no time to drink it Julian Schultz at the Oxford Wine Room has endured a lot of friendly, and not so friendly, needling to tell us about freezing wine. Not only can an opened bottle, that would otherwise be ruined by oxidation, be preserved by freezing, it will be [...]
Posted in mead on Mar 10th, 2008
As I wrote earlier, the USDA’s 2007 honey report had some encouraging news about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). It also indicated that honey prices were virtually unchanged in 2007. They use something called the “all honey price,” which is a weighted index of different kinds of honey, in different regions, sold through retail and wholesale [...]
Posted in colony collapse disorder on Mar 5th, 2008
My “unprediction” lands close to the mark Last May, I was trying to make sense of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and the effect it might have on honey prices. I started with the annual honey report for 2006 published by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistical Service. I combined that with what I knew about CCD, [...]
Posted in commercial wine on Mar 3rd, 2008
The Lady of the House has a sweet tooth, so we don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to wine. This sweet rhubarb wine from Lynfred Winery was a big hit with her, but it was also one of the rare sweet wines that was well balanced enough for me – we both [...]