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In the bottle
« on: October 12, 2016, 07:04:51 AM »
This year's wine went into the bottle today. Tasting very promising too which is just as well as I have 40 litres - 52 bottles - to get through.
I suppose I'd better get drinking.
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2016, 02:34:25 PM »
Hi Andrew, if it seems you have an over abundance I could send you my address.
Feel free to send the excess, I will see that none shall go to waste
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2016, 09:52:58 PM »
Ah! A friend in need....
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2016, 10:26:48 PM »
Nice job Raw Prawn. I assume you did the shiraz from grapes, did you grow them of are the local?

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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2016, 02:32:19 AM »
Hi John.
All grown, pressed and made at home in an average metropolitan garden.
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2016, 09:42:14 PM »
Thumbs up, with the wine!

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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2016, 09:33:56 PM »
Hi John.
All grown, pressed and made at home in an average metropolitan garden.

Impressive in any case, but the part in bold is especially worthy of AC4U!
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2016, 06:59:41 AM »
Thanks for the cheese, Andy and thanks to John and Valley for the kind comments.
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2016, 02:59:27 PM »
How does on give a cheese again?

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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #9 on: October 15, 2016, 06:05:39 PM »
How does on give a cheese again?

Click on the "thumbs up" link below the person's icon. This only shows up when you are viewing, not when you are editing/creating a post, so you have to click first and then do the post, or vice-versa. :)
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #10 on: October 15, 2016, 08:15:22 PM »
Looks great!!  But screw tops??  LOL ;D
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #11 on: October 15, 2016, 08:29:12 PM »
I hear you Al that is was what I first thought. But if he is like me the wine won't be in the bottle long enough to go bad. ;D

Raw Prawn I have Frontenac in my back yard that I usually get 50L from. 

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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #12 on: October 16, 2016, 01:06:50 AM »
  But screw tops?? 
Nearly all wine in Australia has been sealed with screw tops in recent years. For a while they were treated with suspicion but they are no longer seen as inferior to corks. We don't produce any cork in Australia, to the best of my knowledge and I think the the imported corks were of variable quality.
I did notice when I was in France and Italy, a few years back, that most wines were still sealed with corks and I take it that it may be the same in the US. I won't be surprised if that changes in the near future. If it does, I would expect that you will find that screw tops are quite acceptable.

John, the Frontenac sounds good. We may be just a little too far apart to trade grapes.
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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #13 on: October 16, 2016, 02:17:42 AM »
"John, the Frontenac sounds good. We may be just a little too far apart to trade grapes."

I would in a heart beat.

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Re: In the bottle
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2016, 10:47:11 PM »
52 bottles is quite a convenient number for a years yield of wine. :)  I too am impressed that it's all from grapes grown in a city yard!

More and more wine in Canada is being switched over to screw tops as well, and from what I read it's generally considered to be better for the wine in the long run.  Not so many years ago it was surprising to see a nice wine with a screw top, but now it's so common that I'm sometimes surprised to get a bottle with a cork.