Caution – Racking May Cause Tipsiness
May 13th, 2006 | 
Author: I’m “tipsy.” I really ought to be in bed. I am supposed to be helping out a friend in the morning, but I’m way past by bedtime.
I’ve been racking wines – while at the same time, sipping on a bottle or two of SuperTuscan. Sampling wines as you rack them do seem to have interesting effects, which at this very moment, I can attest to.
I’m not even sure I can recall all the work I’ve done this evening as far as my wines that I’m making, but regardless for the most part, am quite happy with them all. There are a few, like the meads, that were .. “ok,” but I figure in a year from now, they will be much more than just “ok.”
I also started two new kits this evening – both R. J. Spagnols “Limited Quantiy” kits which I will write more about later. I purchased these kits from one of my favorite suppliers, Wine Makers.
There are a couple of readers that I recently promised a bottle of the black currant wine – bare with me – I haven’t bottled it yet, and I have not forgotten about you either.
Anyhow, time to sleep off the tipsiness – and hopefully get up in time to get to work in the morning to help out my very good friend.
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Hey I just hit the winemakers thingie you have there and it appears you either live in or at least shop in orangeville. I live in NS but I have been there, as I have a sister who lives there. Nice place, I am surprised you have not tried growing some of your own grapes, concordes do make a decent wine.
Small world! Yes, I live in Orangeville. I’d love to try growing my own grapes – but two problems:
I don’t have much of a backyard.
I wonder if Orangeville’s winters are too harsh. Although only an hour or so from the Niagara Peninsula, we’re up on the escarpment, where the wild winds blow from the west and north west, straight off of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. As well, our growing season is shorter than that south of us. We even had some snow flurries today!! On this May longweekend, believe it or not. I think we hit a high of about 4C.
Say hi to your sis for me!
Well, our growing season here in NS is shorter than yours and we have a thriving wine industry. Also concordes are pretty hardy, you can plant them as a hedge along your property line, might get enough for one decent batch per year and the rest you can use to make grappa.(haha) I would not advise the grappa, horrid stuff.
A thriving wine industry in Nova Scotia, huh? That’s interesting! I’ve never had any NS wine before. I am probably going to spend a week in Maine later in the autumn; perhaps I can take a side trip to NS on the ferry, and check out some wine.
As far growing my own grapes – I do intend on trying something, someday – but seriously, just don’t have the property to do it yet.
What I’d really like to do is have some property where I can grow my own gooseberries and black currants for my winemaking!
I’m not a huge fan of the local wines but they must be ok to some as they are all still in business. The place is the annapolis valley if you want to actually go to the wineries. There is one in a place called malagash(sp) and then there is one in grand pre and one in wolfville. grand pre has been there a long time and has had several owners, don’t know what name they use now. The one in malagash is Jost vineyards and I don’t know the name of the one in wolfville, it is rather new. There are over 200 acres of vineyard in the valley( that’s an old figure). It is noteworthy to mention that grand pre and wolfville are about a 5 minute drive from each other and just off the highway to the valley. The liquor stores stock the jost stuff but some of the others are too small to find in the big stores, however, we do have a couple of specialty places in HFX that would have some.
For complete information concerning making wine at home see the web site:
Pressedforwine.com. There is great information on racking wine here.
Best article,thanks for your sharing ,anthor!
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