


Washing up time!
The Victoria wine is WONDERFUL!..It tastes like Port, but without being ruby red, if you see what I mean!!
Next task is to do the same to 50 litres of Cider.....!
I really love the fact that we make stuff like this, I LOVE being more self sufficient and growing and making food and drink. I feel happiest when we have lots of Jams, Chutenys, Wines, candles, soaps amd such like, all made by us. I also feel good when I see lots of compostman's home made bread and cakes, and meat from 10 miles away in the fridge, and so on.
I honestly feel that with Peak Oil either coming or having been reached we HAVE to learn to be more self sufficient and self relient ( if we can), but at the same time foster an increased sense of community so we can also share our skills and resources with our neighbours if TSHTF........
Hmmm drinking home made wine makes me philosophical, obviously!
I've not seen the plastic demijohns before, can you store your wine in these permanently?
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ReplyDeleteApparently you can...I am not sure I would leave the wine in there when it had finished..( but then I suspect most of it will go pretty quickly, anyway!!)
We got these because I couldn't find ANY glass ones a the time..not in charity shops, not on freecycle..not even in our local friendly " stock all winemaking stuff" shop...but they DID have lots of these plastic ones....
Oh and 5 L water containers are the same thing, but the top has no hole pre drilled to take the air lock!!
;-)
Thanks for linking to my blog BTW..:-)
Oh I meant to say..will be putting the wine into glass bottles when it is done.
ReplyDeleteWow! This looks fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI love the labelling part of my chutney making. We have a village harvest auction each year and I love getting all the products looking at their best.
A great result and yes, so rewarding!
Dxx
Oh my this looks very good. I like mine a bit on the sweet side
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