Some of these beauties will end up going into the Holiday Booze Exchange. Make your reservations now.
Diamonds in the rough. Here are a few fermenters filled with blueberry wine, shiraz, cider, strawberry wine and a few other oddities. They await filtration, and in some cases blending. It's peculiar how when sometimes two mediocre wines are blended they produce a superior profile. I am gradually learning that blending is an intricate art.
Each fermenter gets a tag stating it's name, rank and serial number. This is Earl II, a cider from 2006.
A picture of an oak barrel filled with... something.
Yours truly overseeing the filtering process.
The finished product, a brilliently clear bottle of Blueberry Shiraz 2006. Alcohol by volume 14%. We bottled 3 cases of this variety.
It's a little after 6:00 PM now and the bottling line has quieted down for the evening. In all, we added 9 cases to the arsenal. Time to kick up my feet and lay heavy into the stash.
