Ben's Adventures in Wine Making

Not a bad bottle of wine at all. Perhaps more crab apple than strawberry, but lovely and light. We drank the whole lot on a Wednesday evenin...

This is such a pretty bottle of wine. It is jewel-red and so clear. Taste-wise, it is not bad either and I think rather better than Apple ...

Sunday 25th October was a day of industry. Our evening was to be spent having a virtual dinner-party via Zoom with Mary. When dining with Ma...

Claire has been furloughed. I thought that this would be a disaster when told, but turns out that it works for everyone. Her current role of...

Whenever I am playing something at Music Club I will put a good bottle of wine in the fridge so that I have something pleasant waiting for m...

Nostell Priory is not what I had imagined. Where I was expecting fourteenth century ruins next to a basic visitor centre, there stood a hug...

I was disappointed with this wine, but that was probably because of the mood that I was in. The wine had no distinction - I got neither stra...

This year I saw the New Year in. For the fourth year in a row we are staying at Duncan and Rachel's in Cambridge but certainly last year...

What a genuinely excellent bottle of wine this is. Dry, pink, clear and refreshing. It has a strong strawberry taste, but the crab apple sha...

I took this bottle over to Jenny's as one of my best. We had a lovely evening - Jenny had made two cold salads (carrot & tahini, and...

This was our third bottle of the evening, and between the four of us that is one too many. In our defence, the first was a German white, whi...

I took this bottle as one of my best up to North Berwick, where we were staying with Aunt Jennifer. It was a fabulous wine - semi-sweet, tak...

Lambert and his fiancee, Maria, came over for a meal on Sunday night. Claire thought that a glass of crab apple & strawberry in the gard...

I wanted a good bottle of wine for Saturday night. It was the evening that I played in Mozart's Quintet for Piano and Winds at Music Cl...

We started drinking once it was dark. At this time of year that means shortly after four. Chris was visiting and he and Claire had just made...

Claire thinks that Crab Apple & Strawberry is better than wine made from its individual components. I disagree, but will graciously acce...

I took this bottle over to Richard & Linda's. They are going to America shortly and Linda thinks she is going to say goodbye to her ...

Sooz is visiting as part of her 40th birthday celebrations, so I put a bottle of Crab Apple & Strawberry in the fridge. This is one of m...

Internet shopping when a bottle is close to empty may not be the most sensible of ideas. We are shortly to go on holiday in Suffolk, sharing...

This bottle was Easter's final hurrah. Easter Monday was a lovely day, full of sunshine and Spring. It was the first day of the year whe...