After a few hours spent on Sunday sterilizing all the equipment and bottles, and a near accident with a 75-pound glass carboy full of sticky liquid – oh yeah, that would have been fun – I got all of my first batch of cider bottled with a minimum of fuss and hyperventilation.
52 bottles in total! [...]
The cider has been fermenting for seven days and the bubbling stopped, so it was time to rack it into a secondary fermenter. It involved yards of tubing and sticky countertops. Kitty helped:
The flavor was quite disappointing, though everything I’ve read says that it will be at this stage (really they say it won’t [...]
I’ve been sipping some reds instead of white lately, and I think I really like Pinot Noirs. I’ve tried two very different ones in the last month – both from Monterey! – that I can recommend.
Night Owl’s 2005 Pinot is a bit sweeter than Blackstone Winery’s 2005 so I liked it better initially, but it’s [...]
After rock-climbing on Saturday morning, Josh and I went apple picking at Larriland Farms. We got – believe it or not – 82 pounds of apples, Empire and Jonagold. In under an hour. They say cider should be made from at least three varieties of apples, but the only other ones available were Red Delicious [...]
Let me show you it.
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Anyway, I want to make and bottle my own cider this Fall. So [...]
The Jibe: Pinot Noir, 2006, Marlborough NZ. $14.
I haven’t had that many Pinot Noirs before, so I can’t really compare this one to another. The oenophiles say that a pinot is supposed to taste like raspberries and truffles… hm. If I could ever find a wine that actually tasted like Godiva’s raspberry truffles, I [...]
… aaaaand it turns out there’s even more to know about wine than what I knew that I didn’t know. If that makes any sense. -grin-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_wine_terms
Josh has been bugging me for a while to do wine reviews here, mainly for the purpose of being able to remember which ones I like and don’t like. I’ve been putting it off. Partly because I had no interest in appearing pretentious, but also because I halfway buy into that oenophilic pretension myself, and [...]