Cabernet rock-gutto wine at the Hemlocks

Cabernet rock-gutto wine at the Hemlocks

 

My latest experiment in making wine is turning out much better than my first experiment about a year ago.

My even earlier making my own beer turned out quite well, in my opinion. So I know I can do it if I have to.

Yep we can make our own wine, like at home and if we have to.

In both wine experiments I used “kits” from Amazon.com.

The first kit involved grapes from Italy, and it produced crummy wine, in my opinion, like I did not enjoy it. I blamed myself.

The second kit involved grapes from America (Chile) and is not too shabby, again in my opinion; like I used it to wash down local yellow garden grown squash, slow cooked (with my own choice of cooking oils and flavorings).

In both wine experiments I used local spring water, too. So this wine is Tennessee (USA) in origin, at least in my mind.

So now I am getting bolder, like making trying to make blackberry wine (from local wild black berries I collect.....there are zillions around here) starting next summer. I will use an episode from the old TV show I Love Lucy as a start point when she and her girlfriend were stomping grapes to make wine juice. Blackberry juice has sugar in it, too. Blackberries make OK pies, too.

Hope springs eternal, as the old saying goes.

I do have some wine yeast to help my efforts, too.