I just came back from my neighbor's house. The husband was cleaning out the laundry room and found some homemade wine left over from our joint wine making days back in the 80s. He decided to drain off the wine from the sediment at the bottom and rebottle it so we could have a wine tasting at the next Mahakiri monthly ceremony.
He was filtering some scuppernong 1997 when I came in so I gave it a taste. Not bad, bit of an after taste, but not bad and beautiful color. Then he started some blackberry 1986. Talk about smoooooooth! Aging had certain brought out the best in it. We decided it should be "platinum" labeled and TOP shelf! Chateau Twelve Oaks 1986.
I don't have any old bottles left. My last one decided to explode in the closet so out everything went. What a mess. I did filter some strawberry brandy that I made and canned the berries for ice cream topping.....mighty potent stuff! Sadly, that's all gone now. Bummer.
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