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How do I explain to a gift giver - the gift is unwanted!
Comments (15)Thanks everyone! She is absolutely well meaning, and is definitely NOT a gardener! I will explain to her that it is not something I can keep, and the reasons why I can't. Shermann - unfortunately, there are a LOT of plants on the invasive species list that are sold at everything from Mom & Pop Nurseries to HD, Lowe's, etc. Here is the link that I use most often. The ones I could easily find today are the Barberrys, Privet, Euonymous, the Olives, the Jap Spirea, most of the honeysuckles and bittersweet (which I actually planted, but it didn't survive the drought 2 years ago and I will not replace it). Recently added, are butterfly bushes and bradford pears, both have been favorites of landscapers all over my area and have escaped and are crowding out the natural plants here now. Here is a link that might be useful: PA Invasives...See MoreOpening wine dinner 'gift'
Comments (13)BUT....the OP already said they are back and forth for dinner with bottles of wine....so this takes it out of the "hostess gift" realm. I suspect he wanted to taste the 2 wines side by side or liked the wine he brought better. Or maybe he didn't like the wine he brought at all and wanted to be sure you didn't return it to his house the next time you came. LOL! Did you ask why he wanted to open the wine? If they are good friends, I sure would ignore it. sometimes people make too much of a small action and feelings get hurt. Perhaps he went home and asked his wife " didn't you think it was odd they they didn't want to open the wine we brought? I mean after all....one bottle of wine for 4 people? That's only enough for one glass each".....and that would be my line of thinking. One bottle of wine...750 ml, is not enough for 4 people. Linda C...See MoreHas anyone ever made Blueberry Wine.
Comments (4)Yes, my husband and I have made blueberry wine. We make 5 gallons at a time of all the wine we make and it is all dry wine. My husband likes the wine we make but I like sweet wine. We use about 25lbs. of fruit for 5 gallons. Have you ever checked out www.winemaking.jackkeller.net, it is full of recipes and information....See Morelooking for 'a good bottle of wine' for gift
Comments (5)Sake is not wine. Wine is fermented fruit juice. Sake is made from dried grain, which has no juice. More like beer. But the question was good. W/out more info, it is hard to recommend something. If you have been drinking wine from KY and OH, you are drinking pretty sweet stuff probably. Most of what people would consider "fine" wine is not made that way, but there are exceptions. Sweetness generally comes from unfermented sugars in the juice. The sweetness in the local wines may come from added sugar as well - who knows. But in general, it is more common to find sweeter reds than whites. So if you are looking at imported wines, you can look at many German rieslings. (Riesling is a grape.) These are categorized by the sugar in the grapes at harvest, from QBA and Kabinett (less sugar) to Auslese and Beerenauslese and trokenbeerenauslese (more sugar and MUCH more costly.) Germany has had great harvests over the past few years, so it is hard to really go wrong. Here are some that are available now, all for $20 - $33 or so and all of which I just bought. (Spatlese is an intermediate sugar level that should suit you perfectly.) 2005 Robert Weil Spatlese 2005 Weingart Riesling, Sch.Fur.Spatlese 2005 Haag, Fritz Riesling, Bra.Juf.Spatlese 2005 J.J. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Spatlese 2005 J.J. Prum Wehlener Sonnenuhr Auslese 2005 Donnhoff Riesling, Schl.Fel.Spatlese 2005 Donnhoff Qba 2005 Gunderloch Nackenheimer Rothenberg Spat 2005 Gunderloch Nackenheimer Rothenberg Auslese 2005 Muller Catoir Spatlese But keep in mind that the sugar at harvest does NOT always equate to the sugar after fermentation. THose are 2 different things. You can pick low sugar, not ferment completely dry, and have a sweeter wine than if you picked at high sugar but fermented it all into alcohol. Mostly, but not 100% of the time, spatlese would be kind of sweet. And if you can't get any of those on this list, just find a decent store and ask for a good, not dry, riesling. Hard to go wrong these days. Just remember that "dry" means no residual sugar in the wine, so it won't be sweet. Gwertztraminer is another grape that is often rather sweet. It also has a beautiful floral nose. The rieslings can smell and taste like tart apples and pineapples, the gwertz can smell like lychees and taste a bit like them too. There are good rieslings and gwertz's made in the US, in Michigan, NY, and Washington, for example. Many are likely to have some residual sugar, but they are not as neatly categorized as the Germans. If you were to select a grape from the eastern US in fact, I would suggest that you select a white rather than a red, for which I would go to California or Washington. And eventually you will look at some less sweet wines too! Happy hunting....See More- 6 years ago
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