Wine Update

Well, our 6 gallon batch of Riesling will be ready to drink in 4 days. We had been cask aging it for the majority of the time, but decided to let it finish up in the bottles for the final few weeks. Sonya and I tried it while we were bottling and we agreed that it's pretty good. However, we also agree that it may not be as sweet as it could be considering it's a Riesling.

Anyway, for our first batch, it's pretty good!

Since it's done right before Christmas, we figured it would be nice to share and give some of it as presents to our friends and family. To anyone reading that that fits in that category...sorry for the spoiler.

Since I'm a bit of an overachiever, I couldn't stop at just bottling. We went with heat shrink bottle toppers and custom made labels for the holiday. We thought it would be nice to put a little Christmas quote on them, too.

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white"." ~Bing Crosby

I think the fact that Bing Crosby said it makes it fit Christmas more than the quote itself does.

Not too shabby...eh? If you click on the images, you can see the pictures better.