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Category: Winemaking

Winecraft: Charming Spiced Chai

13 March 2021 ~ Carrie
These fragrant spices make the wine truly remarkable

Spring is in the air and in a few months, I’ll have the bounty of the land available to forage and create wildcrafted wines. Huzzah! Until then, though, there are delightful wines to be made from other ingredients, like chai tea.

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Winecraft: Tranquil Tea

20 February 2021 ~ Carrie
Decaf mango tea

Tea wines are lovely, and easy to make. I’ve discovered, however, that these are not well-suited to evening imbibing because of the caffeine content (though it makes for productive wee-hours writing – yikes), so I figured why not try making decaf tea wine?

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Farm Ferments: New Year’s Day 2021

1 January 2021 ~ Carrie

Happy New Year!! While it may technically be a holiday, ferments happen here on every day of the year. Here’s a peek at what’s fermenting!

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Haiku: Fermenter’s Fantasies

10 March 2020 ~ Carrie ~ 1 Comment

Part of the fun of fermenting is being creative, and when you’re moving nascent wine to a secondary and you see this…well, it merits capture not only in a photo, but in verse. Art is everywhere, if you look for it.

Update: Black Locust Wine

30 July 2019 ~ Carrie

It’s finally time to bottle and sample the much-anticipated (at least by me) Black Locust wine! Yes, the fragrant flowers are edible – in fact, I recently saw a post for fritters made from them that sounded delightful. Like tempura? But back to the wine…

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Winecraft: Black Plum Wine

24 July 20192 January 2022 ~ Carrie ~ 2 Comments

Ever tried plum wine? While the flavor of some wines barely suggest their ingredients, plum is not one of them – good plum wine just tastes of juicy plums.

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