A wine blog by Susannah Gold
This past weekend I went to buy grapes to do my annual home winemaking project with my family. My son loves it although he doesn't yet eat grapes, he likes the feel of the grapes and in the past, he has enjoyed the bottling. This year we are making Syrah and Moscato. My 2017 Moscato... Continue Reading →
Due Gatti is the name of my wine. I was going to call it Susannah's Selections and varietally label it but I opted for this name. As a cat lover, I thought it fit. These two handsome tabbies that are on my label live in the home where I make my wine so it seemed... Continue Reading →
It's fermentation time at our house. This year I am making a Malvasia Bianca and a Cabernet Sauvignon in the Super-Teaneck series. It's my fourth vintage and hopefully my most successful. We shall see. Last week I bought my grapes, had them pressed and but them into open air fermentation vessels. I add cultured yeasts... Continue Reading →
I became a home winemaker in 2006. I ran out and bought all kinds of equipment at our local grape supplier, Corrados, and promptly did everything wrong. I pressed, racked and filtered the wine that year and used cultured yeast. I did not measure the sugars, I did not add sulphur, I put the wine... Continue Reading →
My adventures with my Super Teaneck wines made from Moscato and Zinfandel continued through December when I racked the wine off it's incredible amount of dead yeast cells or lees for the final time before bottling. I transferred the wine into bottles this past December according to my Gurus at Corrado's - my wine mecca.... Continue Reading →
Almost five years ago, I made my first vintage of a Super-Teaneck. I was so excited when I made the wine, pressing my own grapes adding selected yeast, racking it, refining it in oak and storing it, hoping for a miracle. Over the years, I have opened bottles here and there with mixed results. This... Continue Reading →
Shocking but true, the wine I made three years ago using a blend of Sangiovese and Cabernet Sauvignon is actually drinkable. There really is something to be said about aging wines to let the tannins soften and the alcohol diminish. I was pleasantly surprised this evening when I opened a bottle. My wine label, I... Continue Reading →
