I was gifted with some blueberry wine...
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Comments (5)A coworker scoped out Total Wine for me.... he looked at champagne in Magnum and double-Magnum sizes. You can get decent champagne in the double-magnum size for 180. I can't decide what to get my Dad for xmas.... he has everything ....he doesn't have a really cool looking bottle of wine. My fear is that I'll get some wine he doesn't like. I'll have goen for quantity not the quality. Thanks for the advice. I'm going to check it out myself in the red wines.......See MoreI'm looking for ideas for a gift basket
Comments (4)I'm not nuts about gift baskets. When I get one, all that I think is how over priced they are. When we've gotten them in the past it was stuff no one usually eats. Having said that; we get different ones each year from my MIL. Last year & the year before she sent Harry & David fruits which ended up going to friends & compost. Last year's had pears which no one eats. Another year it was a few assorted fruits plus chocolate which gotten eaten more but still wasted. One year she sent ribs which we did eat. I'm not sure where she got them from. Is there a local pizza place he likes? Having a pie delivered to him might go over really well. You can also add a few sides like wings, mozzarella sticks. If he's into sports, perhaps something to do with his team. My hubby likes Dan Marino, he has an online store. If you could find one with quick shipping, it would get there in a few days....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 Moreparty_music50
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