winemaking

We bottle the nettle wine

October 29, 2010
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We’ve finally bottled the nettle wine and now have a dozen bottles of very potent-tasting liquid. We’re hoping it will mellow as it matures.

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Making our first batch of nettle wine

June 24, 2010
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Nettles are plentiful at this time of year and, of course, free, so what better time could there be for us to try our hand at making a few bottles of nettle wine?

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Popular Blagger posts of April 2010

May 1, 2010
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April was a month of successes as we opened the first bottle of our homemade plum wine and cut into the round of cheese that we had been maturing in the outhouse.

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We’ve opened our first plum wine

April 26, 2010
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We’ve opened our first bottle of home made plum wine, and it exceeds all of our expectations. It’s light, fruity and very slightly fizzy. So good, in fact, that we couldn’t help but drink the whole bottle.

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Bottling the wine

November 21, 2009
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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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Moving on with the wine

November 10, 2009
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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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Making plum wine

August 24, 2009

Stirring plum wineThere are so many wild plums around our way at the moment that we’re having a go at plum wine. This is alongside our existing cider efforts, which are happily bubbling away as they ferment in the kitchen.

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