If you read my blog back in July, you may recall that I started a blueberry wine from this recipe. About a week after starting, I racked into a one gallon carboy and since then, it’s been patiently (or perhaps I’m the one who has had the patience) aging and fermenting.

Since it’s been about two months, I decided to rack it yesterday, which gave me the opportunity to have a wee taste as well. Wow! It is already quite lovely – although I only had the tiniest of a sip, I can hardly wait to try it when it will supposedly be even better in about six months from now.

I let Wendy have a sip too. Her eyes opened wide and declared that it was the most different thing she has ever tasted, yet something she wanted to have more of in her mouth to savour. She’ll have to wait for that.

I also racked the raspberry wine as well. The wine itself is quite clear except for some continued bubbling going on with CO2 gasses escaping. The raspberry was not as impressive in taste – in fact, it quite tasted like raspberry juice still. I have faith it will improve with more aging however.

If you are interested, the specific gravity came for the blueberry was 0.990 and the raspberry 0.994.

I also added a crushed campden tablet to each gallon.

Wendy says I must make try making five gallons of the blueberry! Five bottles just won’t last very long, she threatens.

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