home winemaking

Well, well, well…. speak of the devil. No sooner do I get done posting about the soon to be coming hobo wine, but my kit arrive via UPS! I guess that is one time the saying, “You are doing a great job, Brownie” really applies!

I guess the experimentation begins this weekend!

In the meantime, I snapped a picture of the unpacked equipment…

Next up glancing through reading First Steps in Winemaking, by C.J.J. Berry. Lots of unusual recipes in here that I might have to check out… perhaps not the pea pod wine though. And NO, I am not making that up.

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It is an unfortunate fact of life these days that the price of everything we hold dear is increasing.

And this includes wine. sniff.sniff..

And unlike Rory, who works around wine all day and has been known to have access to free wine, Kevin and I, generally have to pay for ours.

Which led me to a thought… a proverb, I believe…

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day… Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime…..

And that is the solution of sorts.

See, when the revolution comes, as a friend of mine says, and you can’t lay your hands on a nice chardonnay, what will you do? Hopefully, I will be able to make my own…

Because I have decided to take my knowledge of winemaking to a more practical level. No, I will not be crushing the grapes myself.. not at this point anyway, but will start with a kit.

I am fully prepared for it to reek.

It will be the satisfaction that I did it myself that will enable me to drink it. Kevin has already started to refer to it as hobo wine and that is ok. So long as the hobos don’t mind wine made with Chilean Chardonnay.

(and my profound apologies to the Hobo Wine Company. I am sure that their wine rocks… as much as I am sure that they will understand my use of the word Hobo to describe my soon to be created vintage er, product.

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