Wine not? A great way to enjoy your produce

[ducks4you]

 

[catjac1975]

My best ever-but, I say that every year. Sorry.

 

[Kassaundra]

Bottled the green tomato wine today, it is a pretty yellow. I started w/ 2.5 gallons and ended up w/ a little over 1 gall and almost 1 quart. I am bottling them in canning jars. Easy to get, easy to clean and sterilize in the dishwasher. I had so little b/c of the great wine explosion! lol lesson learned.

 

[Kassaundra]

Here is the green tomato wine

 

[Kassaundra]

Bottled the strawberry / orange / banana juice wine today, ended up w/ 5 quarts bottled and one settling out in the fridge. Racked the raspberry wine, it still has settling to do before it gets bottled. Got a quart of the raspberry "sludge" settling in the fridge too. Now I have 2 fermenters sitting all empty looking, so I'll probably get the ingredients for another batch of green tomato wine and chocolate wine and start those this week or so

 

[Kassaundra]

Here is the long awaited start of the chocolate wine. I will add yeast tomorrow waiting for the campden to do it's thing before adding the yeast.

 

[ninnymary]

Kassaundra, how are they tasting? Do they taste like green tomatoes and chocolate? Does the strawberry/banana/orange taste like a wine cooler? It's hard for me to imagine their tastes.

Mary

 

[Kassaundra]

The green tomato wine tastes awesome, hard to describe slightly citrusy, a tiny touch of the banana, don't know if you would be able to tell it was banana w/o knowing it was in it though.

The raspberry wine is AMAZING, really spectacular, don't have nearly enough of it!!!!!

The s/b/o wine tastes good, better then the original juice and is such a fun color to drink almost sunsetty orange.

The cherry wine is really great and has a slight sparkle (slight bubble)

 

[britesea]

We have a gallon of wine from our greengage plums, still sitting with the fermentation lock on it from last year. It turned out a lot darker than I expected, considering they were green plums. It should be bottled, but the wine-making is usually DH's baby, and he's had his arm in a cast all summer because of a motorcycle accident (he tried to play chicken with a deer; the deer won). I guess he'll have to talk me through this.
Instead of corking the bottles, he has a bottle-capper he likes to use.

 

[Kassaundra]

The chocolate wine is a changing. It started out a rich chocolaty, muddy brown, now it is turning to yellowy brown, not very attractive color, but I'm confident it isn't though changing color yet. The smell from the air escaping the air lock is very promising.