Wine wine wine

I got a wine making kit for Christmas from Jen, bless her soul, and today I bottled my first batch. Hooray! We'll sample a bottle tonight, but then the rest should age for at least a month, preferably three. I don't think they'll get a chance to age three months. The entire process has been exciting, it's like being in chemistry class again with all of the sampling and testing equipment. Very fun. The best part has been designing my own label. I went with a vintner's name of "White Peat" since this is the literal translation of Witteveen into English. And it's just goofy enough to work, for this label anyway. I plan on creating a new label for every grape we do. A little background on this one: Barolo is from northern Italy, the Piemont region specifically. Venice is also in northern Italy, only on the other coast. That's close enough for me. So this label gives a sort of regional/cultural reference to the wines origin. And it makes me laugh. -M I don't know who this gondolier is, but he is a dashing fellow if I do say so myself. His mustache is quite jaunty.