November 21, 2009
At last the wine is ready. Not quite ready for drinking, admittedly, but ready to syphon from the fermenter and bottle up, as its specific gravity has passed the magic 1000 point. We’ve decided to dump the corks this year. They served us well last year and the year before, and squeezing them into the [...]
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November 10, 2009
Our wine is coming on in leaps and bounds. Probably because we’ve kept it beside the oil-filled radiator that keeps the chill off the kitchen. It’s behaving very well this time around. We did test it after twelve days with the hydrometer, but as the picture shows it was still well under the magical measure [...]
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