Lone Tree Farm

“When life hands you lemons(eggs), you make lemonade(pickled eggs).”

First racking of the white from this year. Racking is where you let the fermented wine settle for a week or so, and siphon off the clear stuff leaving the grape settlement on the bottom. This is repeated a few times, becoming clearer every time.

Well… We lost our red wine crop. 10+ gallons. It looked like a banner year. They were finished fermenting and we noticed a fine, silky thread-like mold on the top. Turns out, our Campden tablets, used for disinfection, were bad. Bummer. Ah well.

Onward.

To bounce back, here’s our homemade hot sauce set up to ferment, using habaneros and carrots that we grew this year.