WineMaking

So, something that I had failed to mention in my Goals 2011 post was that this year Ben and I wanted to start making our own wine. This has been a hobby of my mom's for years, something that has provided us all with what seems like an endless supply of tasty wine, so we thought, why not we try our hands at it?! So today we tromped on down to Wine Kitz and picked up two kits, one Green Apple, and one Valpolicella. We'll make both batches and then split the 60 bottles between my mom and us- 15 red and 15 white for both of us! We went over to my parents and got started making our first batch, in 6 weeks we'll have 60 bottles of wine ready to bottle and cork! Can't wait to see how it all turns out!

Adding the cool water to the concentrated juice

Here I am with my mom adding hot water to the concentrated juice

(I'm learning from the BEST, for those of you at our wedding, my mom made all the wine!)

Stirring the prepared mixture, now it's ready to go into the cellar to ferment for 14 days,

more to come!