Doug Miller wrote:
> In article >, kenny
> > wrote:
>>On Mon, 31 May 2004 05:00:57 GMT, (Doug
>>Miller) wrote:
>>
>>>In article >, kenny
>> > wrote:
>>>>I would like to produce 200 gallons of wine each year and do
>>>>it from my own grape vines.
>>>
>>Ya know I never really thought of it that way.
>>I guess I am a little excessive compulsive in my hobbies.
>>In one year I would make all the wine I need for the next 5
>>years of course the next year I still have 200 gallons of
>>wine to deal with.
>
> Not only the next year, but every year after that as well.
>
>>I will rethink what I really need to plant adjusted to what
>>I think I will drink in a year.
>
> Exactly.
>
> Anything more than two glasses of wine per day is likely to be harmful to
> health. At six ounces per glass, that's one bottle every two days, or 182
> bottles in a year. At five bottles to the gallon, that's 36 gallons per
> year.
36 gallons per year PER PERSON.
If there are two of drinking age in the household then that means 72 gallons
is required.
Federal law allows 200 gallons of wine per household in which there are two
or more adults of drinking age.
Your 36 gallons assumes that all will be drunk in one year and does not
allow for any to be aged for several years. Your 36 gallons also does not
allow for wines that will not turn out to be all that great and may end up
being used for cooking or to make vinegar.
I would venture to bet that some of those who limit themselves to only two
glasses of wine per day for health reasons see nothing at all wrong with
drinking vast quantities of soda or other beverages that have a list of
chemicals on the outside of the container with words they can not even
pronounce.
Lighten up. If the fellow wants to make 200 gallons of wine a year, who are
you to judge. If the feds have nothing better to do than count bottles of
wine in your cellar and determine when it was made, this country is in
worse shape than I thought.