Grapes!

Yesterday, Anne saw a craiglist ad for free grapes in someone's backyard in Menomonee Falls. So I called them and went out there to harvest some grapes in the hopes that I'll be able to make some wine from them. They had a huge arched arbor that was covered in vines and loaded with grapes. I think I got pretty close to 50 pounds of grapes. There were still plenty of grapes on the vine when I left but they were difficult to access and hard to see since it had gotten dark.

I'm not totally sure what kind of grapes they are, probably Concord. They're very sweet and a few of them were literally bursting out of their skins. I'm hoping they'll make some good wine. I guess we'll find out.

So now, in addition to the millions of other things going on this weekend we'll also be crushing and destemming these grapes and getting them ready for fermentation.

In other winery related news, I believe the milk jug wine is about ready to be bottled. Though there will probably only be one bottle of it. The cherry wine is still very sour, I'm gonna try adding an antacid to see if I can cut down on that. Worst case scenario it gets turned into sangria. I racked the zin again last weekend, it's tasting even better and I'm excited to be bottling it maybe in a month or so.

I also made a couple of potential labels for my bottles: