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Banana Wine gets a thumbs down
Posted by Trenchfoot in Wine
Dispatched a bottle of my recent Banana effort up to Birmingham for the Green Cushion (an old housemate). Although it still needed several months in the bottle to mature, the plonker couldn’t resist opening it for a sample. He then had the cheek to say it didn’t taste good!
Patience is a fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22) and I was dissapointed that my friend was lacking in this essential virtue.
One thing you need with country wine is patience. They often need a good few months to mature after bottling before they are quaffable.
Often, if a wine does not come out as I wanted, I leave the rest of the batch for several months (or years!) and it can taste complete different the next time you come to it. Several bad batches have become quite pleasant after a few years maturing.
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Indeed. Trenchfoot and I reaped the rewards of this fruit only this week. We cracked open a bottle of elderberry wine, 2005 vintage. Dave assures me it tasted like rats droppings back then, but this week it was ruddy lovely.
Fendog.
After the banana debacle, rest assured the bottle of tea wine is still resolutely on the shelf.
It will need to stay there until I can taste anything properly after the banana. Taste in haste, repent at leisure – that will be my motto from now on.
Greencushion
Heyhey Greencushion, any news on the tea wine? The banana wine received a universal thumbs down at a pub quiz that I put on with the dandy last week, with one of the groups guessing that the secret ingredient was ‘piss’. As Glaswegians, they may have some experience of its taste.