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Making Apple Wine

December 14, 2017 By sue Leave a Comment

Making Apple Wine

Making Apple Wine wasn't as successful as my other efforts making feijoa wine and wine from white eating grapes. It has eventually turned out to be drinkable but a lot of hassle and heartache to get there and still not as I would have liked. I will share my experiences because there are lots of learnings for other budding wine makers. My previous efforts at making wine have been based on the generic recipe and instructions for making fruit wine on the very helpful makewine.co.nz website. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drinks, Kitchen, Preserving Methods Tagged With: Apples, Wine

Making Feijoa Wine

August 25, 2016 By sue Leave a Comment

Making Feijoa Wine

I had a large quantity of feijoas that I didn't want to waste and decided to try making feijoa wine using a simple recipe. A friend dropped a big bag of feijoas on my doorstep hoping I could do something with them so that they didn't go to waste. I had just been making some wine from surplus eating grapes from my garden, so thought that I'd try making some feijoa wine. The recipe I had from makewine.co.nz is suitable for all fruit wines and I blended this with another recipe I found. Juice … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drinks, Kitchen Tagged With: Feijoas, Wine

Making Wine from Grapes

July 28, 2016 By sue 4 Comments

Making Wine from Grapes

I had a try at making wine from grapes with a surplus of eating grapes from the garden. It is quite easy to do and the result wasn't bad at all - even if I do say so myself! I have been growing a grapevine along my fence and carefully nurturing it through all the steps of pruning grapevines in anticipation of being able to harvest luscious white seedless eating grapes. Last year I was away at harvest time so I missed the first grapes and the birds got them. This year there were masses of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Drinks, Kitchen Tagged With: Grapes, Wine

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