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How To Make Your Own Wine at Home

How To Make Your Own Wine at Home

Being a wine maker, I am occasionally asked how to make wine.  I usually give people the story about how I came about this hobby.  When me and my older brother were going to the same university, he would make his own mead in his basement.  Mead is an alcoholic drink made from honey.  My brother had a simple kit that he bought somewhere and it worked great.  Six weeks after beginning the process, he had 24 bottles of homemad Read the rest of this entry »

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A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – An Organic Riesling From Canada

A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - An Organic Riesling From Canada

I am getting in the habit of tasting organic wines. But there won’t be many of them in this column for one very good (actually very bad) reason. Organic wines usually cost more then our $10 limit. So when I saw this bottle I grabbed it. Actually, I’m sort of cheating. The bottle cost under $10 but it’s only 500 milliliters, 2/3 the size of a regular wine bottle. So I took smaller sips.

FrogPond Farm is Ontario, Canada’s on Read the rest of this entry »

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A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines – A Serbian Riesling

A Wine Lover's Weekly Guide To $10 Wines - A Serbian Riesling

This is our first review of a wine from Serbia, a small country in southeastern Europe in the former Yugoslavia. Fruska Gora means Frankish mountain in the local language. This region lies along the Danube to the northeast of Serbia’s capital Belgrade. It claims to be the oldest wine-producing region in Europe. They have been exporting wine since the Fifteenth Century. Given the local microclimate, the grapes ripen early. You ma Read the rest of this entry »

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