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We've been married 68 years. My CEO (wife) gets upset when I tell her, that if I had been convicted of murder, and given a life sentence, I would have been a free man after 12 years! That's not a long sentence, I know, but this is the UK. The crazy new Labour government we have now, has been...

Wine tasting experts would say "Lots of body in this wine". :D

I stayed in a small hotel in Ischia, Italy a few years back. The owner made his own wine, and he offered me a glass to taste. Wow! It was indescribable. They say the acid in Coca Cola will clean your toilet. I think the acid in that wine would dissolve it. Still, it was his wine and he was proud...

RED BERET, British paras!🇬🇧 Bless em all, the long and the short and the tall. 🪂

When I was a young chap, I used to deliver milk. Our truck used to stop at the bottom of a lane. There, waiting for us each day, was a wee Scotty dog, He used to wag his arse off when I jumped out and grabbed a couple of pint bottles off the truck. He ran alongside me up to the house, where I...

As I said, I've no idea. However, the article does say it's the tannins from the chestnut flowers that can replace SO2. Whether the people who use chestnut barrels get the same effect, well, your guess is as good as mine.

I've used strong black tea myself on numerous occasions.it does work, but the article was about Chestwine as a substitution for Sulphur dioxide, with no effect on colour and taste!

I've no idea. It just came in my emails yesterday. I just put it on the forum so that anyone interested could read it.

The one ingredient that’s missing in most recipes is Patience! Your wine needs to grow up, give it a chance!

I think Tesla batteries are similar!😀

Finally at last, our old dog has got its own meme!

If you're in the UK, you would probably be speaking to someone in India!

Molly Harris, who used to be in a long-running radio soap, came to give us a talk at our winemaking club. She said, when she was a girl, their Outhouse was at the top of the back garden. It was a big bucket chemical toilet which used to be emptied by the local council once a week, There was no...

Different subject, I know, but I read somewhere during last week That Russia had fined Google more money than exists in the whole world! :slp:D

Substitute in Wine Polyphenols Prevent Oxidation Tannin from Chestnut Flowers could replace sulfur as a preservative in wine. The method was discovered in Portugal and patented in 2017. By Wein‑Plus GmbH 2 min. read View original Tannins from male chestnut flowers could replace sulfur as a...

Do you mean dough as in baking, or dough as in money? :D

We altered our clocks last weekend in the UK. It's amazing how quickly it gets dark now! o_O Way back during WW2, we had double summer time. We had to turn the clocks back twice!

It wouldn't do to go mountain climbing up that cliff !:oops: