Update 2025-09-11: Grape vinegar 2025-09-09.

Here’s how Gretchen gets the grape wine into the carboy: with a strainer and a funnel, plus a wood spoon to smush them.

Strainer and funnel

The grapes had been in the buckets for a while, with water and champaigne yeast to start fermenting. Now the wine will stay in the carboy in the cool room for quite some time.

Scuppernong is a large variety of Muscadine grapes, Vitus rotundifolia. They are native and grow wild here. These ones we grew on our arbor, which we call woodhenge. They came from our neighbor the late Barney Ray.

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