28 January 2026
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This afternoon I finally managed to get the rosé wine bottled. I decided to use my collection of Belgian beer bottles, sealed with crown caps, which means we can open enough for a test without having to use up a … Continue reading
26 January 2026
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Last Friday I managed to get my rosé wine racked into a clean demijohn along with some crushed Campden tablet and potassium sorbate dissolved in water. That concoction is designed to sterilise the solution (Campden tablets kill bacteria) and stop … Continue reading
29 September 2025
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The wine I started earlier this month had settled down a lot, without much visible sign of continuing fermentation. As the demijohn had a certain amount of scum on the sides and a thick must at the bottom, as well … Continue reading
9 September 2025
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The wine I started fermenting on Saturday took a couple of days to really get going but today is bubbling away like a good ‘un. Now I just need to keep an eye on it and read up on the … Continue reading
6 September 2025
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A few days ago, we were given a tray of homegrown grapes. Time to have another go at homemade wine. Compared to last time, when we used heat to help extract the juice, this was all done manually, squeezing them … Continue reading
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