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The accidental winemaker! - Harborwitch - 11-10-2008
Our first September here I got the bright idea that I would make grape jelly from juice from the winery. I got one batch of the red made and project got forestalled by the onset of the side effects from my meds and my darling OCD daughter who kept reminding me that you can buy jelly in the grocery store. The 2 containers of grape juice have been in the refrigerator since then.
Well we're going through things, sorting stuff, getting rid of stuff, and paring down. Bob looked at those two containers and announced it was time to dump them - but first I suggested that we should taste; perhaps we have vinegar??????
Nope - we now have 5 bottles of Island Escape Red (the label will show a U-haul truck speeding away from the marina) which is a delightful, almost sparkly Mogen Davidy wine that is probably too easy to drink! So spurred on by the success of that he grabbed to white "juice", commenting that there was some brown gunk in it (yeast). We tasted and thought we'd died and gone to a lovely place - so we bottled 7 bottles of Island Escape White! All of the bottles are corked and under refrigeration.
Now if we just knew some wine lovers who occasionally visit us to help us taste test them again?????
Re: The accidental winemaker! - cjs - 11-10-2008
uhhhhhhh, wonder if you could possibly be on the way to Palm Springs.......
Re: The accidental winemaker! - Harborwitch - 11-10-2008
Wish we could - but our migration won't be quite that far.
The wine is on ice!
Re: The accidental winemaker! - labradors - 11-10-2008
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The accidental winemaker!
Sounds like a title for a made-for-TV movie. LOL!
Re: The accidental winemaker! - Old Bay - 11-10-2008
Mogen David has never been on my shopping list. Love Ya!!!
Re: The accidental winemaker! - Harborwitch - 11-10-2008
I've only had Mogen David once - not on my list either, but not terrible. Well this was actually more like a very grapey (is that a word?) base for Sangria - light, a bit fizzy. I told Bob it was like leaving the marina the last time "sweet and unexpected".
Re: The accidental winemaker! - labradors - 11-10-2008
Of course, many churches that use actual wine (not just grape juice) for communion use Mogen David or Manischewitz. Of the two, I think the latter is the better.