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I have wine! I have wine that tastes potentially drinkable!

After fermentation, (with one added week due to not being around) I added the clearing or finings sachets. Amazing how they work. The wine was more or less clear in half an hour and then truly clear within a day.

Next came the slightly but not really tricky part of siphoning. I recruited my husband to help here, just to make sure both ends of the siphon tube statyed where they were supposed to. You siphon...

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So my wine has been bubbling away for 2 weeks in our bedroom. It was put there because it's a warm room, and apparently it ferments best at temperatures between 21-28°C. The room is usually just over 22 degrees, so about perfect. It's also up on the top of a very stable dresser, well out of reach of curious toddler fingers. This alone probably makes the location a good choice.

The first few nights it was a bit disconcerting, going to bed and hearing a faint hiss coming from the other...

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So I did make a start on the wine finally. I had some quite nice windfall apples from my allotment from a couple of different trees. I peeled and cored them as the recipe called for it. But because I figure there must be some flavour in the core, I threw in a few bits and seeds too. The recipe said to slice the apple - I chose to mince it in my food processor. Much easier. It also said to add blueberries, but as I had none handy, I used sultanas. There were other recipes calling for raisins, and...

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I already have two blogs out there in cyberspace. One about the process of trying to get married in Germany when living there as a foreigner and another about the subsequent move to the UK after Germany. If you are interested in either, drop me a line and I will let you know about them. Or if you are a clever Googler, you should be able to find them from that.

But I always find myself wanting to talk about my allotment and gardening on my other blog. Sometimes it's appropriate, but...

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