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Wine Values, Where do you find it?
photo credit creative commons Eole Depending on what you are trying to achieve by valuing your wine there are several ways to find out what it's worth. If you are just trying to turn it ar...
Welches grape juice wine
Well I finally decided to try this recipe. I don't know why its taken me so long to do it. From what I've read it produces a fairly good wine for a very cheap price and that is right up my alley! Any...
Winemaking for beginners Pt.2
Cheap, fast and now! Of course this is ideal. Even 2 out of 3 aint bad. But, this is rare in life if u consider quality. Anyhow, today I would like to focus on cheap. Cheap doesn't mean u have...
Update to Late Harvest Pinot Gris
OK, patience grasshopper. On April 1st, I checked the bottles under the laundry room table only because the size of the dust bunnies were starting to scare me. The bottle was fizzing, and there was s...
Winemaking for Beginners Pt. 1
So you're new to the world of wine making? Like to get some tips, hints or instruction? Well, you have come to the right place. I hope you land here BEFORE you make your first batch of wine. If not, ...
Strawberry wine
Okay since this is my first blog post I figure I'll start this off with my a bit of an explanation. Up until this point I have always made wine at home from kits. I have had great success doin...
Glogg Recipe - Something Special for This Year
I make Glogg every year and bottle it to give out to friends. It's basically mulled wine with a brandy kick. It's very good, served hot with a orange peel twist in a mug. High alcohol tho so you have...
Battle of the Late Harvest Riesling
I don't usually put energy into a negative situation- I am more apt to just walk away and leave the whole thing alone. And after harvesting umpteen million pounds of niagara grapes, I am kinda bur...
Which Wine Would Be Your Perfect Leonard Cohen Wine?
Wine and food is an obvious combination, as is wine and weather, for sure, lighter whiter wines for the heat of the summer, nicely cooled and fruity .... I have been thinking, over a bottle of Mer...
Hot wine
John from the anything wine-blog met his wife six year ago and since than i guess you can say fell in love with her and her family tradition of making mulled wine. Mulled wine, variations of wh...
Pendleton Whiskey--where does it come from?
Some of you wonder where Pendleton Whiskey comes from.  It is made in Canada to a specific taste profiel but the name of the distillery is not disclosed.  When the product arr...
Late harvest Pinot Gris 'Wining'
Shit. That being said, let me tell you about THE OTHER CRAP. Yeah, It has been over a month on this Pinot Gris and the sg is stuck at 1030. Starting sg was only 1102. Do I have to restart it, or c...
Wine Tasting in Bourdeaux
If you have a trip planned to Europe soon, and you want to polish up on your whine tasting skills, Bordeaux Wine School is offering English speaking wine tasting courses at various levels, dealing ...
Battle of the Pinot Gris...continues
So, day after halloween I find myself VERy hung over and having to figure out where in the wine world I am. I finally figure out I am a little late on the de-gassing of my Pinot gris...but it is only...
Furthermore Beer
I enjoy boutique beers just as much as I enjoy boutique wines and rarely will I pass up a chance to taste them. Its kind of sad thought, when I hear of a small brewery that I am nowhere near like Fu...
Bordeaux vineyards
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in southwest France, with one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area at a 2008 estimate. Bordeaux has about 116,160 hectares of vineyards, 5...
Israeli Wines Kosher and No Kosher
I posted about kosher wines a while back, and pretty much left it at that. I found a blog that I really enjoy reading called The Israeli Wine Blog . I have tasted quite a few great Israeli wine...
Last bottle of 1996 Pierre Moncuit
Pierre Moncuit, ably assisted by his wife, Odile Moncuit-Delos, established his little Champagne house in Mesnil-sur-Oger, at the heart of the Chardonnay dominated Côte des Blancs, in 1889. Mes...
Stage 2 of a re-started stuck ferment: Late harvest Pinot Gris
I can only guess that you know by now this has been the iggest pain-in-the-youknowwhat. I restarted it the end of December with some Champagne yeast attempting to get the residual sugar down, and...
Dover Canyon Winery
DOVER CANYON is on Vineyard Drive in the northwest quadrant of the Paso Robles appellation.  Dan Panico, owner and winemaker of Dover Canyon, has long believed that the northwest-running strip...
Good Bug Bad Bug
I have to admit that I don't know nearly enough about the ins and outs of running a vinyard and caring for the grapes as I would like to. Even less do I know about letting nature help y...
Shoo Fly Buzz Cut Wine
Sometimes I am drawn to things and or like them for the obvious and logical reasons, like reputation, quality personal experience and so on. And sometimes not. Some times the reasons that draw ...
The Wines of Slovenia
Sitting at the crossroads of many an empire and country that has come and gone, Slovenia has been quietly making high-class wines for over two millenia with many of the current wineries founded as fa...
Strawberry Wine Part II
So its been a while since I updated everyone on the strawberry wine project of mine. Its actually been a while since I went down stairs and checked on it to be truthful. So let's get to it, la...
Whiskey anyone?
Whisky refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from fermented grain mash and aged in wooden casks. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, ma...
Read and Drool
One of my favorite wine blogs is Bigger Than Your Head . I love the way he describes taste and talks about wine, but there are a number of people who do that well. What Fredric of Bigger Than Yo...
Late harvest Pinot gris...Winter brewing already?
I guess by now you've seen my picture of the 3 berry guarana must/wine. Well the temperatures here in Oregon USA have gotten really cold,so the progress is viscous at best... The say it is a La ni...
Kosher Wine
Of course I am late (even though I am Jewish) because Passover has come and gone once more, but I never really gave much thought to the concept of Kosher whine and what it means. Anything Wine p...
Requiem of a Niagara-Blackberry Wine
Lay down your head, and dreaming Take your rest. Your work is done, be willing to release. This journey's through; now seek another quest. The battle's won, and so make way for peace. Lay down ...
The Donati Malvasia Candia
The Donati estate is a family estate started in 1930 which is now run by the third generation of Donati -- Camillo Donati, his wife and their children. They cultivate 11 ha of vines using organic and...
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