Ben's Adventures in Wine Making

This bottle marked the end of a week's holiday. We had spent most of the week in Wensleydale and Swaledale walking the Herriot Way in gl...

Definitely a mid-week bottle of wine, this one. There is nothing actively wrong with it, but it is neither interesting nor delicious.  On We...

This is being written three days after we finished the bottle under discussion, which is always a mistake. I cannot, therefore, remember its...

It has been a thoroughly satisfactory Sunday. After an early morning trip to the Asian supermarket, where we bought vast quantities of pulse...

My office closed for Christmas on Friday and for most everyone else the atmosphere was all rather jolly. I went in on both Monday and Tuesda...

I thought this a terrific bottle of blackberry wine - all the earthy fruit that bramble wine should have. It was not an eventful day on whic...

By special request, I took this bottle to David and Liz's, where we spent the evening eating Mexican food. The chilli and guacamole were...

I shouldn't leave it five days before writing up a bottle of wine, because I can never remember what I was doing the day I drank it and ...

Tonight we have had the Wesleyan man around to discuss our finances and this always induces anxiety. To deal with this, after he had gone, C...

What a fabulous bottle of elderberry wine, if I do say so myself. It is entirely smooth and all taste of metal has gone. A dark, rich wine t...

It is not often that we open and finish a bottle on a Thursday night. But it is not often that we are less than 48 hours from a transatlanti...

There is water coming through our kitchen ceiling. This is not a feature one generally wants. 'Happily' this only started on Friday ...

I obviously care about work. Today I came home disappointed, frustrated and on the verge of miserable. I started the day needing eight excha...

This wine has a distinctive blackberry taste, is dry enough to make a fine partner for most food, is entirely clear and a splendid colour. W...

I can think of nothing interesting to say about this wine. We drank it. It was fine. Currently I am totally wound up about Plusnet - who a...

Today is the first day since 3rd March that I have not had stabbing pain in my jaw and that I have not been on a four-hourly diet of pai...

I chose Clove & Ginger as Sunday night's bottle for two reasons. Firstly, it has virtually no alcohol. This is important because I a...

This wine was opened to celebrate the fact that I am not going to jail. In January I had a phone call from the Inland Revenue: they wanted...

This bottle was certainly a hit. Rodney was in raptures about how good it was and wondered if he could order a case. (He can't.) Fig win...

September has been as warm as July this year. The middle two weeks were glorious. This is not something to complain about. However, it cause...