2023 Port
December 2024 Overall, the 2021 Port was a successful effort, so we decided to try it again. This time we used the 2023 Sangiovese, which is 2 juice buckets fermented with the pomace of...
Category: Finished Wines
Record of a wine that has been finished and bottled.
2024 Vidal
updated 07/02/2025 October 2024 Today I met the owners of Glade Spring Vineyard to get the Vidal, which is already crushed. This is the last wine of the year. The Vidal label went through...
2024 Chardonnel
updated 07/21/2025 October 2024 Yesterday my son & I drove 4 hours to Glade Spring Vineyard. Working with the vineyard owners, we crushed 125 lbs Chardonnel, 300 lbs Chambourcin, and 300 lbs Chelois. Then...
2023 Zinfandel
December 2023 I’m making a new Zinfandel kit, one unlike I’ve seen (or tried) before. This kit is actually two 3 US gallon kits that are being made together, to produce one 6 US...
2023 Sangiovese
October 2023 Fall 2022 I got the brilliant idea of adding the pomace from my grape wines to a couple of kits. So I purchased two Finer Wine Kits Tavola Merlot kits and reconstituted...
2023 Merlot
October 2023 This fall’s plan for the barrel wines is to make 3 batches: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. The CS and CF will be barrel aged, and next fall we’ll make 2...
2023 Cabernet Franc
October 2023 This fall’s plan for the barrel wines is to make 3 batches: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. The CS and CF will be barrel aged, and next fall we’ll make 2...
2023 Cabernet Sauvignon
October 2023 This fall’s plan for the barrel wines is to make 3 batches: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, and Merlot. The CS and CF will be barrel aged, and next fall we’ll make 2...
2023 Vidal
October 2023 This morning I drove to a friend’s vineyard in Glade Springs VA, a 4 hour drive. She and her husband picked Chambourcin and Vidal yesterday, and we crushed 120+ pounds each of...
2023 Chambourcin
October 2023 This morning I drove to a friend’s vineyard in Glade Springs VA, a 4 hour drive. She and her husband picked Chambourcin and Vidal yesterday, and we crushed 120+ pounds each of...