Tag: wine making

• Ladybird Wine

  With a sudden-ness that happens sometimes (often), when one is juggling more than three balls,  (I’ve stopped counting) the wine grapes  went from imminent to ‘Pick me right now’!  These grapes are a Vidal Blanc and this is our third vintage.  I only have 12 vines  and I have decided this year that I need…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  September 29, 2013

  homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  challenges, grapes, making wine at home, Vidal Blanc, wine making

• More Wine Less Whine

  Yesterday we bottled the Vidal Blanc wine from last seasons grapes. The wine has been working in its little glass barrels for almost a year now. And the little taste I was allowed before it flowed through the pipes and into the bottles led me to believe that this will be a definite improvement on…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  August 5, 2013

  Gardening, homesteading, Photography, Vines and Wine

  animal photgraphy, blood tests for cows, bottled wine, celi, raising chickens, raising pigs, The kitchen’s garden, vidal blanc wine, wine making

• Everything but the Earwigs – Making Wine on the Farmy.

  Oh and we tried to take out the spiders too. No spiders were harmed in this post -or photographed – so it is safe to proceed. Yesterday was cold all day. One of those cold days that has a proper serious chill carried by a mean little wind aimed at that one spot of bare…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  October 8, 2012

  Photography, Sustainable farming, Vines and Wine

  chickens, daily view, grape crushing, grape pressing, photography, pigs, The kitchen’s garden, wine making