What's in your glass tonight?

[tullamore]

 

[ibglowin]

OMG This is the best $25 OR Pinot I think I have ever had. 2nd label made by Evening Land. Let it air out for 45 mins and come up to room temp from cellar temp and its really breathtaking.

 

[tullamore]

i went off script today - wanted a little something that had a sweetness to it

 

[Hazelemere]

Black Iris Regent 2023

pitted wild cherries, wild blackberries, dried elderberries, hand destemmed uncrushed homegrown Regent grapes on RC212 with nutrient left in a corked bottle 1/2 full on my fridge for a week.

Here are my tasting comments:

Appearance - inky purple

Smell - very pleasant intense Marzipan aroma (tannin aldehyde?)

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - unique and interesting of a type I've never except perhaps in red vermouth or dubonnet. Was really good as a cooking wine in a pot roast.

retaste:

Chardonnay Muscat 2023

This is a 50/50 cooler carboy blend with Sheridan Chardonnay fermented with V13 yeast and my homegrown Siegerrebe-Ortega Muscat blend fermented with 71B yeast. My son in law loves my muscats and I gave him a case of mine which he used to make this blend.

Here are my comments:

Appearance - clear lemony yellow

Smell - good nose - buttered popcorn and muscat

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - this is very good, not excellent but certainly very good. This is a one of a kind Washington Chardonnay, homegrown Siegerrebe Ortega blend with a nice finish. I have 13 to age in my cooler.

retaste:

Chardonnay Muscat 2023

This is a 50/50 cooler carboy blend with Sheridan Chardonnay fermented with V13 yeast and my homegrown Siegerrebe-Ortega Muscat blend fermented with 71B yeast. My son in law loves my muscats and I gave him a case of mine which he used to make this blend.

Here are my comments:

Appearance - clear lemony yellow

Smell - good nose - buttered popcorn and muscat

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - this is slightly flat for me but very fragrant and tasty. My wife really likes it so its hers. She scores it a 9/10.

 

[Christopher Anderson]

2022 FWK. One of my first kits. Carboy for 14 months and then bottled. Quite nice.
Received this from a fellow Bexar Brewer along with 5 glass carboys. Now another place for my bottles instead of boxes.

 

[Hazelemere]

Fresco Chilean Viognier 2024

We bought Fresco fresh juice in pails to improve Washington Sheridan Chardonnay. This tasting is from the Viognier on its own:

Appearance - clear pale lemon yellow

Smell - fragrant, lemon zest, key lime, bananas, honeydew melon, quince, lime zest

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - very good dry table wine the way I like it with a good finish. I'd make it again. It improved the Chardonnay.

 

[Hazelemere]

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My 2022 Blanc de Noir - 18 months en tirage, disgorged 11/10/24

First homemade sparkling wine for me, and if I say so myself it's delicious

It would be useful for everyone here to learn exactly how you made it.

 

[tullamore]

Fresco Chilean Viognier 2024

We bought Fresco fresh juice in pails to improve Washington Sheridan Chardonnay. This tasting is from the Viognier on its own:

Appearance - clear pale lemon yellow

Smell - fragrant, lemon zest, key lime, bananas, honeydew melon, quince, lime zest

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - very good dry table wine the way I like it with a good finish. I'd make it again. It improved the Chardonnay.

u get ur Fresco juice for Bosagrape?

 

[BarrelMonkey]

It would be useful for everyone here to learn exactly how you made it.

I described the winemaking in some detail here, let me know if you want to know anything else!

And riddling/disgorging is described here.

 

[wood1954]

Last year's blueberry wine, bottled before its time. I had an itch to do something in the winery . It’s ok good aroma, just enough tannin, AI generated label.light flavor, just a little acid on the backend. About 30 lbs of ripe berries.

 

[Hazelemere]

u get ur Fresco juice for Bosagrape?

yes

 

[Hazelemere]

White Fusion 2024

This is a blend in a glass of 50% Chilean Viognier from Fresco juice, 25% homegrown Russets + Macintosh apple juice chaptalized with cane sugar, 25% Homegrown white wine grapes including Siegerrebe, Ortega, Reichensteiner, Madeleine Angevine with homegrown Cox apple juice chaptalized with unpasteurized blueberry blossom honey and fermented with D47 yeast.

Tasting notes:

Appearance - clear lemon yellow

Smell - very fragrant, complex nose

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - this is better than the sum of its parts and should make a really good, balanced and tasty house white wine for everyday drinking. I'd rate it as very good. It has no apparent flaws. I'll mix up 30 bottles of this in a carboy, put it back in my cooler and bottle it around Easter 2025.

retaste from a split in my cooler:

Appearance - slightly hazy, slightly fizzy lemon yellow poured from a split

Smell - a bit yeasty but good intense complex nose

Tannin - good

Acid - good

Flavour - this is tasty. I'd make it again in a heartbeat.

 

[Hazelemere]

Last year's blueberry wine, bottled before its time. I had an itch to do something in the winery . It’s ok good aroma, just enough tannin, AI generated label.View attachment 120026light flavor, just a little acid on the backend. About 30 lbs of ripe berries.

please tell us exactly how you created the label

 

[wood1954]

please tell us exactly how you created the label

I used Microsoft’s AI , I told it to make a wine bottle label 3.3”x4” for blueberry wine vintage 2024 with my name on it also. It’s very simple, the more info you input the more control you get over the final image. It’s very easy, I use it for greeting cards, furniture design and even my dreams. I just made this label, it misspelled my name so I told it to redo the label with correct spelling. I could have asked for a howling wolf in the background or a whale surfing in the vineyard.
Here’s what I input
Create a wine bottle label featuring the grape varietal Marquette vintage 2024, winery name Owen Vineyard
To access the AI click on the blue icon in the upper right corner of the MS Edge page, have fun,, oh and then I copy it into photoshop and finish it there