Thanksgiving Wines

[masta]

Did anyone try a new wine today with their Thanksgiving day dinner?


We went to the Outlaws today and I brought along a bottle of my Hard Apple Cider. I guess it is technically a wine but when I made it back in late 2002 it was from a hard apple cider recipe book. I tried unsuccessfully to make a sparkling cider and I can only assume it didn't work due the the fairly high alcohol content (15% ABV). Beside I didn't have much experience back then!


Over the years since I made it we drank some once in a while with some added sugar since it was fairly harsh. Then the 9 or 10 bottles I had left sat in the basement then was moved into the wine cellar last year when we built that.


So finally this year in early September I took them out of the cellar and wanted to sweetenit a bit and re-bottle. I added one can of apple juice concentrate and filtered to remove the sediment that was in the bottles from trying to carbonate it years before.


It was very good with dinner with very strong apple taste and aroma and with quite a kick with the 15% ABV. Might be a wine I submit into the tasting at the reunion next year.


Never give up on a wine since someday it can be really great!!

 

[Hal Maulden]

I popped a cork on a RJS Pinotage Limited Edition 2004. Very good.





Hal

 

[jobe05]

It's funny you started this thread, we just left the table after 3 hours of eating and wine tasting, it was great. We opened a blackberry, Johannisberg Reisling, Merlot, The remaining bottle of Jack Kellers Mustang Grape wine, and a commercial bottle of Blue Moon, a local wineries brand. We always liked the blue moon, a simple white wine thats off dry and very smooth. After a glass of the Reisling, the Blue moon tasted horrible. Very flat and flavorless compaired to my kit Reisling. I don't wish to start the dreaded "Kit taste" issue up, but the blue moon wine had more of an off, or kit taste than the Reisling or the Merlot. All and all, we had a good evening with our home made wines........... Well....... My wife had to good of a time...... I have to put her to bed now..... Edited by: jobe05

 

[Steve]

We had some Johnathan Edwards 2004 Chardonnay ( 1 Bottle)and 2003 Zinfandel (2 Bottles) frome a local winery. Next year I will have some of my own wine to drink I can't wait.

 

[MedPretzel]

Being that I had to drive, I had diet coke with dinner.





I'm having a hibiscus wine now.

M.

 

[jojo]

Beaujolais Nouveau was pretty good. We also had some V. Sattui white wine. I think it was a blend. Used some of it in the turkey gravy.

 

[masta]

We had some Johnathan Edwards 2004 Chardonnay ( 1 Bottle)and 2003 Zinfandel (2 Bottles) from a local winery. Next year I will have some of my own wine to drink I can't wait.

Steve,


Was the Chardonnay from their first harvest at the winery in North Stonington and how was it?


I have been there a few times and their reds from California are awesome!

 

[Steve]

Yes, it is from the first harvest in CT. A few of us went to the annual wine festival and they released 8 casesboth days, so I bought6 bottles, had2 there and one yesterday, 3 left... I never could find it in stores and the website said it was sold out, glad we went to the festival.<?amespace prefix = o ns = "urnchemas-microsoft-comfficeffice" />


It is a pretty good wine, my wife and I really enjoy it, and she is not a big chardonnay fan.

 

[Waldo]

We tried my Muscadine and was suprisingly good with the Turkey

My daughter Sherrie enjoying her Thanksgiving meal with a glass of Daddy's homeade wine

 

[MedPretzel]

Very pretty daughter!

And nice wine!

 

[smurfe]

Didn't really try anything new or different. Did enjoy a bottle of Cellar Craft Rosso Fortissimo that was very good.


God, I hope I can save some of this back while it ages. I had 29 bottles from the kit and have drank 10 of them in the past month. It is only 3 months in the bottle.


Smurfe