It’s Been A While!
July 8th, 2007 | 
Author: I have been so busy with a variety of activities and priorities that I have not spent much time on my winemaking and of course zero time on this blog in awhile.
Just when things seem to quieten down where I might be able to start a new batch, something comes up – and it even got to the point where I hardly had time to even check the water level in the air locks of some of the pre-bottled wines. This past weekend, when I finally decided I had better do something than risk losing some nice wines, it was with a bit of dread that I removed airlocks and had a “wee sniff” after noting low water level.
But thus far, everything seems ok!
I have quite a few wines that I would like to bottle and clean up the wine making area that I have so I can prepare. Prepare because it is summer and I’d prefer to be making wine now from that which is fresh and local rather than simply start another wine kit or wait for autumn for the grapes to be pressed. Berries and fruits and even vegetables are something I promised I myself I would do much more experimenting with this year.
There is still time!
Speaking of vegetables, I did bottle my Parsnip Wine yesterday. I didn’t really taste it but did have some on my tongue – it was not at all unpleasant, but I could imagine that if I tried serving it to someone who was expecting a grape wine, they might certainly be wondering about my wine making. I also think it will be better, chilled.
So I’ve got some racking to do, some bottling – a mead that has been bulk ageing now for two years should be bottled as well as some Mels. Then I’ll give the area a really good clean up and do a bit of reorganization and start planning on some summer crop wines.
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Dear Ian
My name is Sorin Mihailovici and I live in Edmonton, Canada. I have been working in a major liquor store here for the last five years and I could say I am a big wine enthusiast! I just came across your blog and I am glad I found it. It seems like you put a lot of work into it.
While working in my liquor store, I also decided to go to school – I am a student now taking TV productions at one of the most prestigious colleges in Western Canada, Grant MacEwan College.
Trying to mix my two passions I have created a couple of short movies – one is a minute and a half long, the other one 59 sec. The fist one is called “How to Remove Red Wine Stains” and the other one is “Open a bottle of wine without a corkscrew”. Although they are short I put several hours of work into them.
If you have a couple of free minutes please take a look at them. If you like them maybe you could post them on your blog up for a discussion (maybe as a topic idea), I would really like to know people’s opinion. (underneath every movie there is the embed code – copy and paste it on your blog so people could just click on it…)
If you don’t like them I apologize for taking you the time to read my message.
Regardless of your answer – thank you and I will see you on your blog!
There are my movies:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/732526/remove_wine_stains_with_milk_or_white_wine/
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/724199/open_a_bottle_of_wine_without_corkscrew/
Thank you,
Sorin
P.S. If you copy and paste the embed code (and not only the link) along with your text then the video will show up right in your article and will look good. The advantage is that your blog will be featured by my movie so your blog itself will get more views. Make sure that after you watch the movie you press the “Blog/Embed player” – a small grey button under the movie screen, check the small box “Feature my blog here” and then copy and paste the embeddable player code into your article.
Hey Sorin,
Thanks for the comment – I doubt with the time that has passed since you posted that you are checking back here – but my apologies for not responding earlier.
I’ll take a peek at your movies soon! I’ve just been up to my eyeballs in other things over the summer.
Thanks for your sharing,anthor.