Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue
Posted in tasting, troubleshooting on Sep 24th, 2007
When bad wine happens to good dinners
You’ve doted over the yeast, you’ve clarified and stabilized your wine, you’ve set it aside to age, and now you pop the cork. It looks great - nice and clear with great legs (we’re still talking about the wine) as you swirl it around in your glass. Maybe you […]
Posted in tasting on Aug 23rd, 2007
My sister only drinks red wine, and when she came to dinner the other night she brought a lovely bottle of Oregon Pinot Noir. It was really nice of her, and we all enjoyed it, but I wonder if a tiny part of her reason was to avoid being “stuck” with the whites I wanted […]
Posted in tasting on Aug 13th, 2007
Oz Clark, in his Grapes and Wines, called Riesling the wine critic’s favorite grape. I can see why. I just tried some of my 2005, and it’s marvelous.
I made it dry (the final gravity was 0.990, one of the lowest readings for any wine I’ve made) but even 9 g/L of acidity didn’t unbalance […]
Posted in apple wine, mead, tasting on Jun 21st, 2007
I bottled four 1-gallon batches, three meads and an apple wine, yesterday.
2005 Apple Wine
I harvested 13 lb of Liberty apples from my backyard, in 2005, and turned them, along with a gallon of Trader Joe’s Gravestein apple juice, into a batch of apple wine. It’s got a rich golden color, a wonderful aroma, and it’s […]