Another couple, RJ and Elaine Smith, go way back to our days in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. They are the BEST entertainers and "foodies" you could ever meet. We've dined at their home and came home with left overs to last a long time, plus hitting the local restaurants that have served some tasty morsels. BUT, their latest adventure has been wine making.
We arrived when their batch of wine was ready to be bottled, so they asked us to join them and learn "the ropes" of wine making. We did everything from washing the bottles, filling the bottles, corking the wine, wrapping the neck of the bottles and finally putting on the labesl. The end results were thirty bottles of cabernet. The best part is the naming of the wine. This particular batch received the name "Hail Me A Cab"! I think that is extremely funny/cute!! Oh, I forgot to mention that we had to taste it, too! After all of that work was completed, it was time to begin a new batch which I believe takes about three months to get to the bottling stage that we had just completed. The company they work with to make the wine has all of the different kinds of grapes and ingredients that go into wine making. So, it was an interesting day and I realized a lot goes into that bottle of wine you might pick up at your local liquor store!
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Bottling The Wine "Hale Me A Cab" |
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Making a New Batch of Wine |
We have had super weather here in Ft. Meyers....sunny and hot, sunny and hot, mixed in with a few late afternoon rain showers. That's Florida, right? The rest of the time we have been busy with a few boat projects, walking the beach, laying at the pool or the beach and checking out some of the local restaurants. It's a hard life, but we are just the people to do it!
