Posted on 02/16/2020 4:58:36 PM PST by BenLurkin
Cook with the wines you like to drink. If you like the taste, you will like the taste in your food
Deep reds for beef, lighter whites for fish and chicken sauces
They should resurrect these guys.
I was trying to do dandelion once. We had enough dandelions, but you have to only take the petals & it got tiresome doing the collecting. Your FIL might’ve gotten part of the green stuff in there. The weirdest one we’ve done is banana, using dried banana chips & raisins. In the primary fermenter it smelled like sour milk. I almost tossed it, but decided to keep going. It gradually lost that smell & turned out to be an okay mild white wine. Didn’t taste much like bananas, though.
Aldis has Winking Owl for $3.29 btl. A bargain.
Hopefully this will turn Nasty’s vineyard belly-up.
Strange. I read not long ago that GLO-BULL warming was destroying the grapes.
I can live with lower wine prices.
Wasn’t it just last year when there was not going to be any more wine from there because the fired destroyed all the vineyards?
We lurch from one set of news to another.
Sensationalism is all that is able to feed the 24/7 news cycle.
Too much news.
I love wine. And the cardboard boxes are great for magazine storage.
Growers were counting on expanding China sales.
But the ChiComs have been planting their own wine grapes. I wouldn’t be surprised to see China imports in lower end brands soon.
One year, my SIL gave me a wine-making kit for Christmas. I followed the instructions precisely and scientifically, bottled it up, and drank it.
That stuff was like a dry Port - or harder. Gave me the only real ‘hangover’ that I’ve ever had.
I gave up on making it, and buy my wine - though I’d always rather have a Guinness :-)
I suspect This will impact the lower end of the market (under $30) and the mid range ($30 to $50). The high end wines and super high ends (above $100) will not be affected as much, as their grapes are both limited and often under long term contracts.
Funny, thanks!
Then quit making rotgut.
I suspect that the wine spill of Rodney Strong wine into the Russian River a couple of weeks ago will have some small impact, 97,000 gallons worth!
A local super market has 40% off about every 4 weeks -——
That’s when I buy!
Which means I can stock up! Now... I just need this same scenario for bourbon.
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