Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in ingredients, rhubarb wine on May 18th, 2009
Rhubarb is a high quality ingredient that can make a great, age-worthy wine. It’s also a versatile ingredient that takes to many different styles. To take advantage of its versatility, you need to know what it brings to your wine and what you need to add.
Posted in ingredients on Feb 9th, 2009
Winemakers use sugar all the time, and I thought it would be a good idea to gather up what I know about sugar in one place, as I did for cranberries, honey, and chocolate.
Weight and volume of table sugar
For other ingredients, I’m usually [...]
Posted in chocolate wine, ingredients on Feb 18th, 2008
What do you need to know about chocolate to make wine with it? That’s what I want to focus on in this installment of my Know Your Ingredients series. So I’ll be skipping over most of the history of chocolate and the details of how its made, unless they help illustrate something about how chocolate [...]
Posted in ingredients on Feb 14th, 2008
I’ve begun reading Composition Of American Honey by Jonathan White, which was published in 1962 by the US Department of Agriculture as Technical Bulletin 1261. It’s the most comprehensive survey of honey ever conducted, or likely to be conducted anytime soon, in the US. Reading it made me want to post about honey in my [...]
Posted in cranberry wine, ingredients, winemaking on Dec 12th, 2007
With Thanksgiving not far behind and Christmas fast approaching, I began thinking about cranberry wine. I’ve never made cranberry wine before, so I think the best way to start is by taking a closer look at what’s in cranberries.
What are cranberries like?
One cup (240 ml) of whole cranberries weigh about 3.5 oz (100 grams). Chop [...]