What R you doing today?

[CheerfulHeart]

FYI - 5 gallon glass carboys and glass hydrometers do NOT like or bounce on concrete floors.



Rats......

Hope you are OK and weren't hurt.

 

[the_rayway]

Did a rhubarb picking with Fruit Share and came home with another 15Lbs. Most got chopped and into the freezer for an upcoming wine, but I also set aside enough for jam, pie filling, and to make a couple of cakes.

Had friends over for a wiener roast and campfire, and cracked my 2012 Orange Creamsicle Mead. Damn that stuff is good! It's really come around over the last year or so.

 

[Matty_Kay]

Racked 15 gallons of wine today- 5 of a Chilean Malbec, 5 of Dolcetto and 5 of Montepulciano. The Italian wines are from last fall juice buckets from PI Wine. The Dolcetto was the best of the lot so far.

 

[ffemt128]

Managed to bottle the Niagra, Cherry and Steuben over the weekend. Next weekend will likely be for bottling the Isabella and racking the Pinot Grigio and Riesling.

 

[Hokapsig]

not hurt by the carboy bouncing and I don't want to have to prove that again.

The wife and I celebrated our 28th anniversary by spending the weekend in erie and visiting the wineries. We started in New York and ended up in Erie and visited 7 wineries. My wife bought 5 cases of wine and we got to tour 4 of the wineries. Winery owners in the Erie area will bend over backwards to help a new winery and we make some great new friends during our tour. We look forward to visiting again soon.

 

[Runningwolf]

not hurt by the carboy bouncing and I don't want to have to prove that again.

The wife and I celebrated our 28th anniversary by spending the weekend in erie and visiting the wineries. We started in New York and ended up in Erie and visited 7 wineries. My wife bought 5 cases of wine and we got to tour 4 of the wineries. Winery owners in the Erie area will bend over backwards to help a new winery and we make some great new friends during our tour. We look forward to visiting again soon.

Which wineries did you tour? You didn't come and see me!

 

[Hokapsig]

we figured you were busy and we wanted to tour the northern wineries and make new friends. We will definately stop in next time....

 

[ffemt128]

Just back sweetened my Isabella from .992 to 1.008. I'll sample there later and decide if it needs sweeter. This is where the initial sample was.

 

[Boatboy24]

Bottled 3 gallons of the 2014 Chilean Cab/Merlot for Dad's birthday party next month. The rest is still in the Vadai and will come out in the next few days to be bottled later this summer.

 

[Boatboy24]

Got the remaining 6 gallons of 2014 Cab/Merlot out of the barrel and the 2014 Amador Old Vine Zin in. Later this morning, we are doing a 'family friendly' 5k obstacle course/mud run. It's been raining all night. Should be good and messy.

 

[Hokapsig]

on a perfectly rainy day, we will be taste testing and hopefully bottling the Cranberry Pomegranate and possibly a 2013 Merlot.

 

[ffemt128]

Heading out to Trax Farms for their summer Wine and Food festival. My son bought us the tickets and is watching his sister for the afternoon.

 

[vacuumpumpman]

We are having my sons graduation party as he is going to college next year. Waiting on some 150 people to start showing up soon - everything is almost in place and ready to go.

Luckily we have beautiful weather today - considering we already received approx 13 inches of rain for the month of June already.

 

[ou8amaus]

Sitting on the back deck sipping away at a nice watermelon Zin Rose and watching my little one draw dinosaurs.

 

[Johngottshall]

Bottled 5 Gal of Diamond from juice I got from NY. Crystal clear

 

[CheerfulHeart]

Went to Laundromat in town to do 2 weeks' worth of laundry. Drought has caused us to be careful with the well here at the ranch...had to choose between showers or laundry...Showers won . Also got the major grocery shopping for next month done and now I am sitting by the air conditioner sipping some DB. Yep, I think I earned that glass of DB.

 

[jgmann67]

Working the weekend... Got $30.2 Billion we need to spend.

 

[vernsgal]

We're in Calgary. Going to take our granddaughter to park and then come home to a BBQ and a bottle of Sangiovese syrah

 

[jtstar]

Put up 12 gallons of rhubarb today then went out to the new vineyard and did some pruning

 

[Hokapsig]

bottled 14 gallons of Catawba and 12 gallons of Cranberry Pomegranate. The hot water tank went, so I am forced to take cold showers. For some strange reason, my wife is elated by this turn of events.....