It's been a LONG time since I've put something up on this blog. I guess it's mostly because we've kind of switched things up on our backyard farming journey. Over time I've sort of gone the same path as civilization has; trying to (subsistance) farm our own food, to specialization with eggs and bartering them with the CSA next door, and now finally to finding a niche in agriculture that I want to pursue exclusively- eventually hopefully I'll even be legal to sell. That niche is wine.
I've been making quite a few wines- mostly fruit or "country" wines, and I have never gotten around to figuring out how to blog about them. Essentially I didn't want to start posting about my earlier efforts for fear of publicizing my failures! But that was a mistake. I've made about 40 gallons by now, and many of the lessons I've learned have been from the failures. When things go right, it's sometimes not as a result of what you did knowingly, haha.
Anyway, I've decided to catch up here. I have notes in my wine book on many of those early wines I made, and since many of them are finally ready to bottle and drink, I'll try to post a wine a week. What recipes I used, what notes I took on them, how they came out and maybe a photo or two.
So far I have made a peach wine, a plum wine, an apple wine, a blackberry wine, a cherry/ zinfandel wine, a dark chocolate orange "port" style wine, a persimmon wine, an elderberry wine, a cyser (mead with cider), and finally a strawberry. I have had disasters, victories, and a few unexciting products come out of all this- all of which will be revealed in detail. I have plans for many many more as well, so those will go up as they happen rather than just being notes on finished projects.
There will likely be some tweaking of this blog coming soon, since its focus going forward will likely not be green thumbs, but red ones.
Stay tuned!
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