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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.
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 slightly flat for me but very fragrant and tasty. My wife really likes it so its hers. She scores it a 9/10.
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 slightly flat for me but very fragrant and tasty. My wife really likes it so its hers. She scores it a 9/10.
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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.
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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.
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.
It would be useful for everyone here to learn exactly how you made it.View attachment 118812
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
u get ur Fresco juice for Bosagrape?
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.
light flavor, just a little acid on the backend. About 30 lbs of ripe berries.
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.
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
retaste:
This is my wife Carol's house wine i.e. everyday red (I make it for her palate which is different than mine):
2020 - Washington Dineen Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon, Sheridan Syrah
2021 - Dineen Cabernet Franc, Amador Cabernet Sauvignon, Lodi Mettler Vineyard Petite Sirah
2022 - Marechal Foch, Regent (both homegrown)
My comments:
Appearance - purple
Smell - good, very complex, intense, fruity, smokey, lingering, licorice, sandalwood, pomegranates, figs, cocoa
Tannin - good
Acid - good
Flavour - this is rich and tasty with a long finish. I rate it as very good, almost very good-excellent i.e. much better than a house wine. I'd make it again if I could. I only have a few left so they are hers.
It's the "Full Proof" not the "Small Batch" that had everybody going crazy for this stuff. I have a bottle of both. The Full Proof is hands down the better sipping bourbon!
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