Brand and flavor

My favorite is what I make. I enjoy a variety of wines, but my "house wine" is white grape and cherry. This is a recipe I got from Jack Keller. It's cheap to make and easy to drink. My mother in law, who likes wine, called it a soda pop wine. I make a lot of Skeeter Pee, which is a lemon wine that the ladies seem to prefer. I don't drink it, but I make about 40 gallons a year. Right now I only have 5 bottles on the shelf. However, I have 10 gallons in the making.

My wines I currently have ready for drinking are.......

Cabernet Sauvignon - Australian juice
Cabernet Sauvignon - Australia/Chile/California blend of grape juices
Malbec - Chile
Shiraz - Australian juice
Valpola - Italian juice
Carmenere - Chile juice
White grape/cherry
Skeeter Pee

I started a batch of pomegranate/wildberry wine coolers today.

Had one just this week called sams ancient orange mead that was pretty good. The incoming president of my bee club had made that batch.

I have enjoyed your wine over the years, Mr Paul. To visit yourself at your booth at NTA events have been happy visits for me. Your wine has impressed my editor of FFG and many others. Though I still have reservations on the name Skeeter Pee, that remains my favorite of yours to this day, though all your wines are delicious I would love to try your Aussie wine someday too.

LOL, the name Skeeter Pee only reflects the color of the wine, not what it is made from, and would resemble skeeter pee if you could actually see skeeter pee. It's hard to potty train those little buggers.

Some years ago, I made a batch of apple based wine that I believe underwent a malolactic fermentation.
It was glorious, but I don't think that I could duplicate it intentionally if I tried.

I understand ! It isn't anything but my eclectic artist's mind envisioning those nasty wee bugs being trained to wee wee in a bottle

No wine I have evah enjoyed matches your homemade lovely varieties !

Thank you Ms Sharon, I appreciate your opinions.

I think that the term "skeeter pee " is meant to evoke an image of the conditions when it is best enjoyed.
A light libation best consumed while slapping skeeters off of your face.

Von Wilhelm Piesporter Michelsburg.
A nice dry German white.
It goes very well with visiting a beautiful girlfriend.

I like my homemade Niagara wine the most. Concord grapes are the majority of what we grow and they come in a close second I enjoy both these wines semi-sweet

Juggernaut is a decent store-bought wine. I make wine also but haven't had one outstanding as of yet.

Lol Skeeter Pee. Very unforgettable name. Thank God it's only an analogy.

We were at a coffee and chocolate fest a few months back there was a wine maker there who had a sign for one of their wines called Tighty Whiteys. I laughed hard and decided to try it. I was pretty sure they used tighty whiteys in the fermentation process.


A cheap favorite of mine is Menage a Trios. Their red blends are fantastic their pinot is good too

Skeeter pee.

The beauty of wine is their endless varieties. I am a simple man, I have no real favorites, but, enjoy most.

The wife, on the other hand is very picky. Her nearly exclusive pick is: Batasiolo® Mascato D'Asti.

Most reds from Australia's Marlboro Valley and most whites from New Zealand.

Fuel prices and the constant screw ups of the folks at the helm. Don't really have a favorite to be honest though. I can whine about most anything when I am in the wrong mood

Kind of like Paul, we mostly enjoy our own homemade wine. I spent some time over in Bordeaux as a college-aged fellow and came away with an appreciation for some of their reds. In particular the Saint Emilion which is best enjoyed with a cup in one hand and a haunch of red meat in the other.

Fast forward a few years and dad gave me and each of my 5 siblings five acre parcels of the family farm. One of the first things I did was plant some wine grapes. Through my connections with NAFEX (North American Fruit EXplorers) I met an old German guy who had 325 grape varieties in his collection abut 40 miles from our place. He took a liking to me and let me run around through the vineyard in the fall and take cuttings of whatever I liked in the winter. He was the one that suggested that I try "Marechal Foch", a hearty red that was early, disease free, and very forgiving in its care. So I planted enough to produce about 50-60 gallons of wine per year. (Foch was a frenchman that hybridized American and french grapes looking for resistance to phylloxera which was killing European vineyards in the latter part of the 19th century).

So I learned to make some pretty decent wines over time, but it got to the point that my falls were so busy with late harvests of quinces, raspberries, strawberries and blueberries that I never had time to make wine. So the birds were getting the grapes!

But hallelujah, about five years ago I made the acquaintenance of a master vinter who had a wine club membership business. He needed Foch for his collection so we struck a deal where he harvests my Foch every year, makes the wine, and about a year later I get a third of the bottles back for my share. So depending on the year, Fanny and I get about 8-9 cases.

Enough to get us through the winter anyway!

PS. If anybody on here would like to try their hand at growing them I can make cuttings available if you cover shipping costs.

Grandpa, sense you ask. My- not my wife's favorite. Is a put up I make, more an apple jack I suppose. An apple juice concentrate from Germany one of the few things we can still get after 30 some years. I use champagne yeast it (the yeast) lives to a higher alcohol level than typical wine yeast. We call it our "back porch wine". I kill the fermentation when the hydrometer sinks to the bottom of the carboroy (sp). In fall after last hay put up. A cinnamon stick chilled or warm in a cup it is one of the best things I have had most years. In a bad year she can use it for cooking, I sometime have some previous year still around, I only do 5 gallons a year. Racked two times. Put up in green bottles aged in the wine chiller, bottles on their side, fake corks. Store bought my/our favorite is inexpensive Bay Bridge Merlot.
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You sent me a couple Swenson varieties a few years back. Top quality cuttings...100% sucess rate. They definitely deserve a pay per cutting on top of shipping. Let me (us) know when they are ready for payment/shipment.