We bottled in blue bottles, tasting room empties from a local meadery. I should have posted the labels on the bottle the first time around. The colors of the background work very nicely with the blue bottle.
As I relayed in my 2023 wines thread, we filled 16 bottles and I didn't think there was enough for a full bottle, so we filled the split. I was wrong, there WAS enough to fill a 750 ... so we have 2 split bottles. Since the labels I use are 6 per sheet (printed 1 with my son's logo, 2 with mine), we used 'em all up.
The Frankenwine label? We had another bottle that had been setting -- got to the end of the Vidal-Juice when racking last fall and set it aside. Didn't have quite enough to fill the bottle, so we topped the last couple of ounces with whatever we were drinking. It tastes fine, but the other wine changed it from the Vidal, and we didn't want to blend it into the batch. But after we poured this bottle off the acid, there wasn't quite enough to refill the bottle. There was a bit of residue in the carboy that was a bit muddy, so we used the clearest part of that. I hadn't soaked the Frankenwine label off the bottle (it was clean), so I just wrote "Vidal" on it.
This one will get used first, and probably for cooking (some goes in the food, some goes in the cook). I don't mind a bit of sediment, although I'd not serve the wine to anyone except close family.
As I relayed in my 2023 wines thread, we filled 16 bottles and I didn't think there was enough for a full bottle, so we filled the split. I was wrong, there WAS enough to fill a 750 ... so we have 2 split bottles. Since the labels I use are 6 per sheet (printed 1 with my son's logo, 2 with mine), we used 'em all up.
The Frankenwine label? We had another bottle that had been setting -- got to the end of the Vidal-Juice when racking last fall and set it aside. Didn't have quite enough to fill the bottle, so we topped the last couple of ounces with whatever we were drinking. It tastes fine, but the other wine changed it from the Vidal, and we didn't want to blend it into the batch. But after we poured this bottle off the acid, there wasn't quite enough to refill the bottle. There was a bit of residue in the carboy that was a bit muddy, so we used the clearest part of that. I hadn't soaked the Frankenwine label off the bottle (it was clean), so I just wrote "Vidal" on it.
This one will get used first, and probably for cooking (some goes in the food, some goes in the cook). I don't mind a bit of sediment, although I'd not serve the wine to anyone except close family.
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