The art of winemaking

So as it happens Therese mother has a grapevine growing in her garden, that has stod unused for years. I have some experience in making more or less bad fruit wines from my early student years. So this autumn we decided to try to make some real wine. We started out with an ambition that was perhaps aiming to high, to replicate the deep colour and taste of a nice Chateauneuf du pape-wine. Living in sweden dont give the best climate to grow grapes, so a few of them where still green, but we picked them anyway.

17 kg of mostly ripe grapes

After some rinsing, pressing and adding sugar and yest the wine batch was ready to ferment and turn that chunky stew into gorgeous wine.

Some misscalcuation on how much the grapes would float upwards once the fermentation started lead to it all spilling over our bucket and we had to remove the grapes earlier than planned. So ta-daa! Instead off that nice Chateauneuf du pape style, we got rosé. A quick tasting has me convinced it will be a great wine for mixing sangria. Bottled 25 bottles today, and now we have put them in the cellar for 6 months of maturing before tasting. 

25 bottles happily maturing in the cellar. Will be back in 6 months to try one!

Gorgeous, a little muddled from the yeast, 

but once that settle it should show a nice pink color

Cheers from Markus & Therese!