How do I make my wine ferment faster?
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I have my second 3 gallon jug on wine fermenting beside me, my first was a huge success, I am drunk off the first batch now.
what I am making takes 39 days to make. I did not time the finishing of the last batch and the starting of the new batch in such a way to keep being a wino until the new is done, so is there any way to speed things up. if I add more yeast?
you can’t, the important thing about wine is that it takes time to be wine, otherwise it’s not good…. I don’t want to try yours …
An Ideal Way to Taste Lots of Wines
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There is no better way to get to know a variety of wine than going to a wine tasting. It is a unique opportunity to taste wines, have an expert guide you through the tasting, give them points according to your own tastes, and then, by the end of the evening, have a great idea of the type of wine that is your favourite.
When you are at a wine tasting, you taste the wine with a group of people, sometimes familiar people, sometimes strangers, making it a great opportunity to get ideas from others. Other people will have tried different bottles of wine to you previously and will be happy to share their views on which wine goes with which type of food and how to keep wine at its best once the bottle has been opened.
Wine tastings happen regularly across the country and beyond. They are usually held in interesting locations in city centres, such as art galleries, museums, or other heritage buildings. They often have producers of wine in attendance as well as experts, to guide you through the evening and offer advice if needed.
In addition to wine on offer, canapés or hors dâoevres are often served as well, making for a great night out, discovering new tastes and hopefully finding a new wine to fall in love with.
Not only are wine tastings a great way to get to know a new wine, it is also a fantastic way to meet fellow wine lovers and who knows, by the end evening, you could have made a new friend or two.
Most wine tastings only last for a couple of hours â any longer and you would have forgotten the first wine that you have tried. It is a good idea to make sure you donât drink too much too quickly, as you will be mixing different types of wine, and you donât want to end up buying something you didnât really like, or having a splitting headache in the morning.
Wine tastings are held all over the country, from Bristol to Durham, at Lancaster to Salisbury.
There is bound to be one close to you. In addition to wine tastings, some companies hold wine dinners, where you get to taste wine in conjunction with indulging in a great meal.
Wine tastings come in a couple of different formats. There is a more formal, intimate set-up, which could feature fine wines and more information on a smaller number of wines. There is also the less formal setting where you walk around tasting a larger variety of wines, but this lacks the intimacy and the expertise of the more formal gathering.
If you are interested in wine tastings, why not check out an independent online retailer where you will find more information on this service.
Fiona Muller
http://www.articlesbase.com/wines-and-spirits-articles/an-ideal-way-to-taste-lots-of-wines-424317.html
alcohol level checking device for making home-made wine?
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For homemade beer, you use a hydrometer to test the alcohol content – it’s looks sorta like a thermometer that floats on top of the beer and you measure the alcohol % by observing how much of the hydrometer becomes submerged in the beer. I’d imagine the same thing happens with wine, but try searching online.
Virginia Wines Go To London
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What do Virginia wine and England have in common? Answer: history and today’s interest in pursuing quality wine. This year is the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Jamestown by the English settlers. Several events have been planned to commemorate the founding of Jamestown in 1607. One of the events planned will be the tasting of Virginia wines at Vinopolis in London. The theme is “Virginia, First in Wine.” “First in Wine” refers to the quality of Virginia wines and to the established fact that Virginia was the first place in the new world for the English to attempt the cultivation of grapes and winemaking. In February, a number of Virginia wines were judged at White Hall Vineyards in a wine tasting event. The purpose was to choose wines to go to England for a tasting. On April 30, Virginia will present wines at a VIP invitation only tasting at Hampden House (a historical house) in the middle of Chiltern, England. On May 2, the Virginia wines will be tasted at Vinopolis, a world wine center in London. Will the Mother Country be impressed?
Will Thomas Jefferson’s dream of producing fine wines in Virginia be met? After all, an attempt was made to grow grapevines very early in the 1600’s. When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown, native grapes grew in abundance. Wine produced with these native grapes in 1608 was unlike wine in Europe. Wine from Virginia was bitter and did not travel well. England was hoping the colonies could provide wine for the Mother Country. Laws requiring the growing of grapes were passed. Failure to grow grapes would result in severe penalties. By 1619 the House of Burgesses required each adult male to plant grapevines. However, at this time vineyards and vine growing requirements were not well understood. By the late 1700’s, Thomas Jefferson had visited grape growing areas of France and fully believed that Virginia could grow grapes and produce wine as good as any other country. Jefferson said, “We could, in the United States, make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly the same kinds, but doubtless as good.” Jefferson tried growing his own vineyards and participated in a venture with a vineyard planting next to Monticello. The vineyards did not survive. Despite Jefferson’s firm belief that Virginia could grow grapes and produce fine wine, he was unable to make a single bottle of wine before he died. George Washington also tried growing grapes but the vineyards were not productive and he replaced the vineyards with orchards.
During the 1800’s, Americans attempted to grow wine grapes throughout the country. Again, due to lack of knowledge about vineyard diseases, success was elusive. As time went on, an accidental hybrid began to grow successfully and after the Civil War, vineyards were beginning to flourish. Then came a manmade disaster in 1919. Congress approved the 18th Amendment and by 1920 the amendment was ratified. This decimated many of the existing vineyards and in combination with the Depression in later years most vineyards could not survive. By 1933 when the 21st Amendment repealed Prohibition, much damage had occurred to the wine industry.
Today, after Prohibition, Virginia is making much progress towards becoming a well-known area for growing grapes and producing fine wine. To prove this point, 65 wines from 28 Virginia wineries were chosen to provide wine for the wine tasting at Vinopolis in London. Vinopolis is a wine museum, tasting facility and restaurant all rolled into one building. Wines from all around the world are available for tasting at Vinopolis. However, until now only wines from California have been represented of wines produced in the United States. If you have the opportunity to visit London on May 2, stop by Vinopolis and check out the Virginia wines.
How will Virginia wines fare at Vinopolis? On our recent visit to Vinopolis we shared a bottle of Pearmund Cellars Ameritage with Tom Forrest, the Tour Development Manager. He shared the bottle with other tasters and had the following comment, “I retasted the Pearmund Ameritage last night. It seemed to have really developed after opening. It was full of rich fruit cake aromas and flavours. Still smooth and soft, the spicyness of the Malbec element shone through the red and black forest fruit flavours. It impressed the members of the tasting team. So I look forward to tasting the wines in May.” Anyone who has visited wineries in Virginia and talked to the winemakers knows that Virginia wineries are intent upon making fine wine from the best grapes available. England, we hope you like Virginia wine.
Kathleen Sullivan
http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/virginia-wines-go-to-london-133013.html
Whats the best book on home wine making?
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Its illegal to sell it, not to make for own consumption.
1. The Way to make wine: How to Craft Superb Table Wines at Home
2. The Encyclopedia of Home Winemaking: Fermentation and Winemaking Methods
Those are the books my friends have recommended. I also have a great site to help you along the way with any unanswered questions.
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/search.html
Looking for a nice bottle of red wine. Can anyone make some suggestions?
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I’d like to buy a present of some wine for a friend, who knows a lot more about wine than I do. He’s a bit of a foodie and really likes a good steak or lamb, so I want to get a bottle of red which would complement that. Not got much of a budget – about £15 for the bottle. Can anyone make some suggestions and then give me some ideas where I might be able to find something like that?
There are a lot of great red wines out there that will compliment Steak or Lamb quite nicely. You can get just about everyone of these online for less than you will get them in a store. The ones on my list are mostly boutique wines that will have to be specially ordered at a normal liquor or wine store.
Trinchero Ranch Cabernet Sauvignon
Cocodrillo Malbec
Laguna Merlot (very bold, kind of like a Cab)
Oberon Cabernet Sauvignon
Los Primos Malbec
Killer Bee Cabernet Sauvignon
Mark Davidson Shiraz
Domaine de Pierredon Cotes du Rhone
Meeker Handprint Merlot
Wine Could Reduce High Level Of Cholesterol
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Cholesterol control could be an enjoyable experience for those who take liquors, as wine is the newly inducted remedy for controlling high cholesterol. It sounds unbelievable but it has been proven that intake of wine could reduce high level of bad cholesterol. So, wine helps in preventing coronary artery diseases.
Although it’s not medically preferred but for those who already are in a habit of taking wine, this finding is merry making. They need to regulate the amount of wine consumption though. This remedy serves the purpose only when taken in a regulated amount.
Usually doctors don’t suggest wine remedy to those who are wary of consuming liquors but on few occasions doctors have been found recommending red wine to curtail a surge in LDL, the bad cholesterol. Folks who already take alcohol are advised to keep moderate level of wine consumption to keep LDL under control. If taken limitlessly, wine could act contrary to what it is suggested for.
Wine could control total cholesterol by increasing a little amount of HDL or good cholesterol that lowers down bad cholesterol level in blood. HDL does so by bringing LDL back to liver from blood, reducing thereby the total cholesterol level. Wine could affect cholesterol in other ways too. Like, wine usually comes with anti oxidant elements and certain other chemicals such as resveratrol and flavonoids which directly attack bad cholesterol and eliminate it from arteries. These elements including Vitamin E are found in wine and serve as anti coagulants, preventing the plaque formation in arteries. It shows that wine by regulating LDL could save you from danger of coronary artery complications.
While consuming wine you are not meant to take more than two pegs a day. What specifically comes to your rescue in case of high cholesterol with probably negligible side effects is one or two drink of red wine. Along with resveratrol red wine comes with chemical called saponins that happen to be a prolific LDL eliminator. Catechin is another beneficial content of red wine that serves the same purpose. With constant but regulated intake of red wine you lessen your chances of developing cardiovascular problems by thirty percent. You must not wonder about efficacy of red wine in cholesterol control as it is extracted from red grapes that already happen to be a natural cholesterol reducer.
A moderate amount of wine often tend to reduce over all fat content of body that also result in reduction of total cholesterol.
To sum up, wine consumption if incorporated in your life style would probably keep you away from high cholesterol and related complications. However it’s not a preferred practice and American Heart Association is quite wary of this peaking connotation of wine’s efficacy.
Ashish Jain
http://www.articlesbase.com/advice-articles/wine-could-reduce-high-level-of-cholesterol-79713.html
Can wine gone bad make you really sick?
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I’m just wondering if wine gone bad can make you really sick? In what ways can wine go bad?
I think gone bad wine was how they found vinegar…..
Yeah for sure, it’s like drinking a whole glass of freshly squeezed lime, witout addin water n sugar juz pure lime on an empty stomach….
I’ve heard drinkin milk could relieve the pain of ur stomach.
So add those bad wine in ur salads…. hehehhehhehe
A Short History of Glass and How the Murano Glass Making Tradition Has Started
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Glass and glass products may be taken for granted now, but they were a luxury item a very few people could afford, sometimes in the 3000âs BC when its manufacturing history started in the Middle East.
The glass manufacturing grew during the Roman Empire and spread from Italy to all countries under Roman jurisdiction. During the times of the Venetian Republic the glass craftsmanship flourished as a result of good contacts with Byzantine Empire. In 1291, fearing fire and destruction to the cityâs mostly wooden buildings, or maybe for better protecting their secrets, the glassmakers were ordered to move their foundries out of Venice and into the island of Murano. For centuries afterwards the glassmakers of Murano have held the monopoly on quality glassmaking, developing or refining many technologies including crystalline glass, enameled glass (smalto), glass with threads of gold (aventurine), multicolored glass (millefiori), milk glass (lattimo), and imitation gemstones made of glass. But mostly what made Muranoâs glassmakers so special is the simple truth that they were the only people in Europe who knew how to make a mirror!
Today, the artisans of Murano still make use of their century-old techniques, hand-crafting everything from contemporary art glass and glass jewelry to murano glass chandeliers and wine stoppers.
Technology and tradition in Murano glassmaking
One of the attributes that distinguish glass from other materials, such as metal, is the way it solidifies. It is based on this specific glass feature that the murano manufacturers stage their unique technique of glassmaking. Working the glass in this specific frame of time requires talent, skillfulness, know-how and sensitivity, which only a few expert glassworkers have mastered today.
The making of a murano product follows a working cycle of 24 hours. The mixture of raw materials is loaded two or three times into the initially empty pot. The first load goes in about 5pm, at a temperature of 1250°C to 1300°C. The last at 9pm to 10pm and afterwards the temperature is raised to 1400°C to drive out any bubbles from the liquid and to let the glass become homogeneous. At about 2am the melted glass is ready and the temperature is lowered to 1000°C to 1100°C. At this temperature the glass will, at 7am, have the viscosity necessary for working. Afterwards the blowing and the manipulation with iron take place, thanks to the malleability guaranteed by the continual contact with the fire.
The glass rod is the starting point to make the glass beads. It is made by pulling both ends of the single color glass bubble, until the right diameter is reached. The rod can measure up to 100 meters long, and is then cut into smaller sections of approximately a meter each, which are then bound in bundles. The solid glass rod is used to make really beautiful beads with the âflameâ technique. Over the heat of a flame the glass melts and creates a thread that is wound around a fine metal rod. This way a sort of hot glass ball is produced that is worked and shaped using pincers or bronze moulds to give the bead the desired shape (round, square, star, etc.). Once it has cooled down, the bead is placed in acid that dissolves the copper rod and leave a hole in the bead.
Various and important techniques can be used for the flamed beads, some of the most interesting and typically âVenetianâ are those made with gold or silver leaf, which are achieved by forming the first liquid glass which is then rolled over a very fine leaf of 24 carat gold leave or pure silver; with the heat, the leaf breaks giving a cracked effect that is always different. The glass can then be covered with a second layer of transparent glass to make the bead shinier, while if it is left without the second layer it has a less polished look.
Millefiori or thousands of flowers
Millefiori is a polychromatic, colorful design as thin as a straw. Exactly when the very first design of millefiori was created is not known, but the archeological testimonies place them during the Alexandrine and Roman times.
The colors of the millefiori beads are created one at a time. First a hot ball of glass is pressed and pulled by the glass manufacturer into a certain shape like a flower or a star or a geometrical shape, and then the rod is covered in layers of different colors of glass.
Another very important technique is that of applying pieces of Millefiori rod to the main nucleus. Also known as Millefiori or Mosaic beads, they are made by applying fine pieces of rod to the hot glass core so that the entire surface is covered. The bead is then heated a second time so that the murrinas weld together. The result is that not two Murrina pieces are the same.
Murano – Hand-Blown Glass Jewelry
âBeauty is a quality of a person, object, place, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, affirmation, meaning, or goodness. The subjective experience of “beauty” often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in balance and harmony with nature. This leads to powerful feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.â (wikipedia)
Just like one canât be totally objective when looking at two beautiful women and freely choose one of them as the most beautiful one, or honestly decide upon the purest ray of sun or the most perfect rainbow, one will never find two pieces of murano jewelry the same.
Mirroring the freshness of light, the fluidity of water and the intensity of fire, the murano jewelries please both the eye and heart. The foil of gold or the bits of silver ads to their noble allure as the eye catches a glimpse of them through the rich color of the glass.
Endowed with an unique design fit for an unique woman, a cherished occasion or for an out of this world partner, the murano jewelries are the perfect gift. The proud wearer exhibits a piece of jewelry unlike any other piece in the entire world.
Article courtesy of Alluring Creations CC, http://www.alluringcreations.co.za
Patricia Furstenberg
http://www.articlesbase.com/jewelry-articles/a-short-history-of-glass-and-how-the-murano-glass-making-tradition-has-started-135916.html
About making home made sangaria wine?
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I bought a huge gallon of Sangaria (Carlo Rossi) wine. I tasted it chilled and the flavor just wasn’t right to me. Now i understand that you can add extra "goodies" to it to make it taste more fruity and serve to guests at a coctail party. Does anyone have any suggestions, or has anyone tried this before?
mmmmm sangria is nice. try strawberry’s, apple, orange, grapes and a little soda water. all the fruit needs to be diced.enjoy