This weekend was bottling weekend. Bottled up nine gallons of cab, Il Monstro Viola (this was the year that the purple monster in our front yard died) yielding 55 bottles of wine. Interestingly the two carboys I used had distinctively different tastes, one had a much stronger oak taste than the other. But both batches, this year, had a lot less of that "juice" taste than my previous years. Off to storage you go, Il Montro Viola:

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Wow, I love the labels. Can't wait to taste it :)
Posted by: Anandi | May 11, 2009 6:44 PM
You can guess who made the labels, and it wasn't Mr. Pontiff :)
Posted by: Dave Bacon | May 11, 2009 6:46 PM
I'll take a bottle.
Posted by: Karl | May 12, 2009 1:51 AM
Me too!
Posted by: David | May 12, 2009 11:19 AM
Molto bene, ma {monstro, montro} -> mostro, no?
Posted by: jjmc | May 12, 2009 11:54 AM
'Monstro' is a sort of superposition of Italian 'mostro' and English 'monster'. But it is ok, maybe. Also notice that in Italian 'mosto' (no 'r' inside) means 'new wine'. Saluti, s.
Posted by: serafino | May 12, 2009 4:57 PM
Oh, cool. Do you sell your wines? I wouldn't mind cracking open a bottle by a SciBlogger. ^_^
Posted by: Xanthir, FCD | May 29, 2009 3:33 PM