Ben's Adventures in Wine Making

This year I have scaled back my rose petal wine production. I think that I have more bottles of rose petal in the house than any other flavo...

I needed Sunday. Whilst the previous week at work had been a busy one, Saturday was manic. It was the WYSO concert ( Siegfried Idyll , Mende...

Roses in our garden This summer has been good for roses. Our white rose has produced blooms in abundance and the red rose doubled its ou...

A lazy Sunday evening bottle. We drank most of it before the food was on the table - which is about par for the course, but managed to save ...

I am extremely pleased with this bottle. It has elements of a medium sherry, but with a lemon zing and something unusual besides. That will ...

This really was an excellent bottle of wine. It had a true white wine taste with only a hint of Eastern Promise. We drank it in anticipation...

When Claire and I were married, 19 years ago, Betty Rumsby gave us rose vouchers as a wedding present. We bought two, both white. One...

Our rose bush has been splendid this year. It is the last year that we will see it in bloom and this has been its parting gift. Of all the...

We spent the night in York and I brought along a bottle of Rose Petal wine. It was a beautiful summer's day - the first we have had this...

At the beginning of this week I had hoped that we would be exchanging contracts on the new house today. It is looking increasingly unlikely ...

Following the success of Rose Petal 2013, this flavour has been promoted to 'double batch regular'. Therefore both I and my par...

Ordinarily I get to December and worry that I have made too much wine. This year that thought has struck in July. I did not intend to mak...

I brought this bottle to York with me, to share with my parents and Chris. After all, the majority of the ingredients came from Mom's ga...

In anticipation of foraging for elderflowers tomorrow, I opened this bottle last night. Claire is on holiday this week and gave a pint of bl...