Rainy Day Wine

It was a very rainy day, so we decided to make us some strawberry wine for the second time this week.  The first batch of wine came out of the kitchen garden where Ben picked a gorgeous mix of "Gaviota," "Earliglo," "Jewel," and "Seascape," for the project.

This batch of wine comes from berries from the kitchen garden.  Farmer Ben picked 9 pounds for it.

I did the picking for today's wine.  Because it was rainy, these berries came from the high tunnel.  I really needed to clean up some of the rows in there, so I killed two birds with one stone (I wish I meant this literally.  The birds have been gorging on the strawberries non-stop).

 The berries settle at the bottom...

 ...Then they slowly make their way to the top.  Fermentation is so much fun!

 We look forward to making lots of berry wines this summer.  Expect a few lines about blueberry, blackberry, and maybe even wineberry wine.