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Today I bottled the Mulberry Wine that I made on July 11, 2023. Here, with temporary labels, are the three bottles. Each was sealed differently. When I first decided to try making wine, I purchased the cheapest corker available. Therefore it takes considerable strength to use. I bottled one this way. Then, I decided to try reusing a screw top bottle. I haven't done this before, but if it works, it's so much easier! The remainder, was put into a beer bottle and I used a bottle capper. Typically, the small bottle is used as a sampler, and the large bottles are stored for years before drinking.

I did the "Dry January" thing. This was the second year I did it. The biggest benefit to me, is just knowing I can do it.

I made this wine 14 years ago, and bottled it 16 months after that. So take your pick if it's 13 or 14 years old. Anyway, I've decided that I need to drink some of my wines in my back stock once in a while. If I don't, someday I will be gone and someone else will get to have them all. They tend to be pretty good. Like this one, sometimes they're pretty strong. This wine was made with very sour wild grapes accompanied by a generous amount of honey.

Homemade Wine made 13 years ago.

This is the wine I made June 23rd.

I went through my "wine cellar" today, as I am preparing to bottle my Mulberry wine I made this summer, when I noticed that the rose-hip wine that I made when I was in Rhode Island, begin to push its cork up! This doesn't usually happen. But I made the wine in 2003 when I was living in Providence. I used rose hips that I gathered near the ocean. In November of 2003, I was preparing to come back to Minnesota and so I had to heat up the wine and try to stop the fermentation process so that I could bottle it early and bring it home. I had wondered from time to time if this wine would be any good or if I had ruined it. Obviously, I found out today, that I didn't completely kill the yeast because it had created enough pressure to slightly carbonate it, and also push the cork up. Since this was the first Friday in a month, that an aging parent hadn't fallen or been hospitalized, this nearly 18-year-old wine, that selected today to come out, became our dinner wine--and t...

In the spring in 2008, I married my wife. Later that summer, I made a wine from the grapes growing outside the backdoor of the house we lived in. Late the same year I bottled it. Tonight we opened it. It is 13 years old and it was very good.

Grilled chicken with wine and listening to the Best of Cat Stevens...

The wine I made August 17, 2020 was bottled today. Now it can go in the archives for a decade or so.

We had the second sampler bottle of a different homemade wine. This one was made from mulberries and wild black raspberries. I made it ten years ago. It was deep purple and delicious. It was also pretty strong.

We had a celebration tonight that included a delicious wine I made ten years ago.

Here is a wine I made over 10 years ago out of wild grapes and honey. I love the color and flavor—though it is not like any other wine I've ever had. In fact, the taste varies slightly between the batches I've made over the years. It is not sweet and not really dry. It has a good amount of alcohol in it. It is entirely natural and a decade in the bottle does no harm.