This has been a long process. Our friends CJ and Susan and ouselves decided we would make some wine. Being the good Italian lover that I am I found a local 'Water to Wine' store and we all went in to test their wines to decide on which ones we would like to make. Now this is not an easy process so we had to test many reds and whites. Finally we narrowed it down to one red, a 'Barolo' style and one white, a Pinot Gris. We put in the concentrates, the yeast, the oak etc. and after thorough mixings and testing they were ready to age in buckets.
A month or so later we came back to visit our 'babies'. They had been transferred to clear bottles and were percolating nicely. We tasted some new wines they had, very generous tastings and bought a few bottles. CJ and Susan seem to love the process. We are taking them with us to Italy to see the real thing next year.
Last Friday was B-Day, bottling day. We came in, after we had sent our labels in to get done. Thank goodness they had not been printed yet since I had sent a picture of our old red truck instead of our house for our labels. We bottled, corked. foiled and labeled 29 bottles of each, testing some as we went. It needed aging so they put some on 'aging magnets' which helped alot. After celebrating our 'children' Lynda, CJ, Susan and myself had a great dinner and dreams of Italy danced in our heads.
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