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.
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 (http://www.z4-forum.com/forum/images/smilies/smilie_thumbsup.gif)
Ah! A friend in need....
Nice job Raw Prawn. I assume you did the shiraz from grapes, did you grow them of are the local?
John
Hi John.
All grown, pressed and made at home in an average metropolitan garden.
Thumbs up, with the wine!
Quote from: Raw Prawn on October 13, 2016, 02:32:19 AM
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!
Thanks for the cheese, Andy and thanks to John and Valley for the kind comments.
How does on give a cheese again?
Quote from: valley ranch on October 15, 2016, 02:59:27 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. :)
Looks great!! But screw tops?? LOL ;D
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.
Quote from: Al Lewis on October 15, 2016, 08:15:22 PM
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.
"John, the Frontenac sounds good. We may be just a little too far apart to trade grapes."
I would in a heart beat.
John
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.
I'm certain the postage from Australia to here for some wine couldn't be that high, oh wait, now I remember, you're not in the lower 48. LOL
Quote from: Al Lewis on December 10, 2016, 12:33:54 AM
you're not in the lower 48.
I had to look that one up but you're quite right, I'm not. Couldn't actually be much further away.
Anyway, I thought that some photos of the vines might not go amiss. There are three of them, currently with the new crop coming along very nicely.