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tovaryn
 
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Thanks Ray!

Jack Keller's Niagara was the first batch. It's still sitting in a 3
litre bottle under an air lock (the rest has gone to racking and
tasting). It'll probably never make it into bottles because we'll just
keep sampling and moving it to smaller jugs.

I'm building up to a wine kit. When I brought up the subject of
winemaking back in January, the DH and I chose to go with the little
batches of country wine to start.

I want to make dandelion next (because my granddad loved dandelion).
Then strawberry because we have ours in the garden. Then chokecherry
(because my great aunt made wonderful chokecherry wine) and apricot
(because my great gran made kicking apricot wine).

This is currently an obsession; it will calm... I hope we stay
with it though.

Sometime in the late fall or so maybe I'll get a couple of bigger
carboys and I'll get a grape wine kit. By then, we should be tired of
fussing with the little batches.

Probably a good thing we're not doing a larger kit now. We'd surely
ruin it with fussing over it.