Buckaroo - what do you do with that huge amount of wine? Do you give it
away, bottle and sell it or is it like my grandfather - sitting in the
basement until he died and his kids gave it all away?

On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:59:20 -0700, Tom Kunich wrote:

> Buckaroo - what do you do with that huge amount of wine? Do you give it
> away, bottle and sell it or is it like my grandfather - sitting in the
> basement until he died and his kids gave it all away?


lol, drink it mostly...

My wine club has several large "socials" every year, next one this
weekend at WindWalker Vineyard ("www.windwalkervineyard.com" did their
website also)in Fair Play, Ca . I do the website for our wine club and
take the pictures, will have them posted next week. So I take several
bottles to the "Socials", give some wine to friends, neighbors and
family. Also, use the "would you like to see my wine cellar with women".
Of course, it is important they taste several different wines straight
from the barrel/carboys and then we eventually become more than friends.
But mostly drink too much wine.

I also am amazed at some of our wine club members who make several
hundred gallons of wine every year. I have asked them the same question,
what do you do with all this wine? Same answer as me, go figure, they
must give away lot more than me.

It is a lot of hard work during harvest season, I hate picking grapes.
But it is nice to be able to have a nice wine every night. My liver is
probably some what toasted at this point, but unlike some people, I have
no plans to live forever, lol

By the way, pressed out 20 gallons of that Barbera that was fermenting a
couple weeks ago. It is tasting great which is amazing for a newly
fermented Barbera which is notoriously high in acid. I am going to get
some Zin and Cab and call it quits for the season. I should have about
hundred gallons by the time it is all over. 5 bottles per gallon should
give me about 500 bottles which will be plenty for the upcoming year.

Helaman

this point, but unlike some people, I have
> no plans to live forever, lol
>
> By the way, pressed out 20 gallons of that Barbera that was fermenting a
> couple weeks ago.

I only picked 400 pounds of Barbera as it was from a small home vineyard
and it was free. From the results right now, wish I could have picked
twice that amount.