17 July 2024
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Cheap white wine for dinner tonight (left over after dinner yesterday) and I decided to experiment with it. Lidl’s cheapest “Spanish White”, not even graced with a grape or region, was not unpleasant but rather one dimensional. Tonight’s dinner (around … Continue reading
20 March 2024
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Looking back, it appears I failed to either record when I bottled my homemade wine from last autumn or my first impressions of it. By the end of 2023 (I think) and drinkable if somewhat different to my experience of … Continue reading
20 December 2023
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I checked in on the wine again today. Both batches are set at the same gravity reading (about 1.000) as when I last measured them and taste about the same. My mission today was back sweetening. One batch at a … Continue reading
27 November 2023
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The wine I was working on around the beginning of October has been sitting quietly in its demijohns, both inside cardboard boxes to exclude most of the light. I’ve been doing a bit more reading on how to proceed and … Continue reading
1 October 2023
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We got another donation of grapes on Friday evening so a chunk of yesterday was taken up with processing them. You can’t leave fresh fruit too long or it goes bad, so time was of the essence. I’ve produced another … Continue reading
25 September 2023
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I’d count myself as quite a brewing veteran. I’ve done a lot of beer, mainly starting with the grain, and a fair number of batches of cider but I’ve never attempted wine. I’m not so interested in kits and I’ve … Continue reading
20 January 2021
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Today I have been working on turning water into wine. Okay, strictly speaking, water into the illusion of wine. This is actually a mixture of water and red wine vinegar. At each step, I used a syringe to remove a … Continue reading
31 May 2019
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One of the many plants shoe-horned into my back garden is Sweet Woodruff (Galium odoratum). We’ve had it for about five years and it forms an attractive ground cover plant, with fanned stars of leaves topped by small white flowers … Continue reading
28 April 2019
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It might be a consequence of the fact that I’m buying at the lower end of the market but, with a lot of the wines I drink, they leftovers taste better the next day than what is poured on the … Continue reading
4 March 2019
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I remember having a season on this blog when I was taking quite an interest in wine. I’d buy pairs of bottles from my local Majestic (then in Lewisham), drink one and write a review and then, later, drink the … Continue reading