…is going to be leaving it in the bottle long enough to properly age.

We bottled the gooseberry wine last night and, per tradition, left a little in the bottling bucket to sample. And sample we did. And, well, it is a sweet (in every sense of the word) dessert wine. The gooseberry comes through nicely and we successfully avoided the cidery taste I had feared when we over-sugared it.

So there are 25 bottles of gooseberry wine sitting in the coal room now. They should sit there unmolested for at least two months but it was so much smoother than the Riesling that it’s going to be hard to not cheat a bottle here and there.

Thanks Dan and Doug for pitching in on this one. Many hands turns Nick into a supervisor. ;)