Apple Wine 2019 - Fourth Bottle (1), 16th-18th April 2021

Mostly this bottle came after a drink in someone else's garden. The most recent easing of Lockdown allows groups of six people to mix outside and we have taken full advantage. On Friday we were drinking cider in Mark's garden - some of the apples came from our tree and the fizzy stuff was excellent. Then on Saturday we drank top quality champagne with David & Liz to celebrate David's birthday. The apple wine was a bit of a come down after that. Alright and little more.

Pear blossom in our garden on 17th April

Mark Harland's Breakfast Wine - 24th May 2019

Mark brought this bottle over as payment for some pond plants. It is called Breakfast Wine, not because it is made of bacon, toast and coffee, or because of the time one is to drink it, but because it is made from fruits associated with breakfast - pineapple, grapefruit, banana. Possibly raspberries and/or blueberries too. It has a lovely pink blush to it and I thought that grapefruit was the prominent taste. In fact, the first taste is bitter and quite a jolt, but quickly a more rounded, pleasant flavour comes through. An interesting bottle.

Mint, Elderflower & Rhubarb Wine - Fourth Bottle (6), 24th May 2019

Mark came round on Friday night, bringing a bottle of his Breakfast Wine with him. He needs to restock his pond after it had an encounter with an enthusiastic Labrador, and our pond is teeming with plant life (plus frogs, possibly fish and certainly snails - but he isn't having any of those).

I opened a bottle of Mint, Elderflower and Rhubarb on the basis that it is one of my best and we drank most of it in the garden, pretending that we were warmer than we were.