Last night my parents dropped by for leftover mock-turkey and thanksgiving dinner. Apparently my first attempt at stuffing was a huge success - Mum says it took her quite a few tries before she got such a quality stiffin' ... so that make me feel pretty good. We also opened a bottle of Recline Ridge's Marachel Foche, which was, if you recall, my favorite B.C. Red. After apple pie and ice cream for desert, we were definetely satiated and satisfied.
Mom was given boxes of grapes from a local vinyard that I guess were not ready at harvest time, and missed the bottling - so their proprietor friend just stated giving away crates of wine grapes.... my mom squished 'em all up into juice and brought me about 8 litres for me to attempt to make wine with. So after they left last night, I dumped half the juice into a carbouy, added some sugar, water and yeast.... I guess we'll see in a couple of weeks whether that'll come out as wine. Let's keep out fingers crossed - if this is successful I think I'll get about 6 bottles of Calvin's Vintage 2004. I'm sure it'll be in high demand, so place your orders now!
umm, i think you're just s'posed to put in the yeast.. the sugar and water already exist in the juice... good luck, though... if it doesn't work out, you can always make pisco!!