Ben's Adventures in Wine Making

Tuesday night is The Great British Bake Off night, and we were down to the penultimate episode this week. As always, we were allowed treat...

We drank most of this bottle on our return from Wakefield on Saturday night. Claire had been playing 'Third Viola' in Heinrich Biber...

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...

This was a splendid bottle of elderberry wine - everything elderberry should be: dark, smooth, rich, fruity. We drank it on a lazy Sunday wh...

This apple wine isn't half bad. The apple flavour may not be as pronounced as previous vintages and there is a heavier consistency, but ...

Last year our apple tree was prolific, much to the joy of local blackbirds and squirrels. This year it is far less so and as of mid-Oct...

Thursday night should not really have been a whole bottle of wine night. It has been a long and difficult week at work though - that first w...