Today I bottled up my first attempt at wine of any kind, a Riesling Ice Wine. The entire experience went very well. I made the wine from a kit, so that helped make it easy for my first time. It is not much different than making beer, except you do not have to boil up anything other than a few cups of water with some specific ingredient packets. This 3 gallon batch filled twenty two--375ml Ice Wine bottles and six--12 ounce beer bottles, as well as my nice sample glass!
I actually corked up an empty wine bottle in the joyous chaos of bottling. The best part was that I siphoned the last 2 cups or so of wine of the carboy and sampled it in a glass...AMAZING! This 12.25% ABV beauty is sweet and smooth! I will definitely do this again.
Never thought wine making could be that easy.
ReplyDeleteIts just easy because it came from a kit, so the juice was already prepared for me rather than smashing grapes myself.
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