Upcoming Events

*Free Wine Classes*
While you're sitting there sipping on your Summer wines, it's time to think about what you'd like for the Fall.
Stop in to see John (Farmington) or Mike (Farmingdale) and check out the new upcoming seasonal and limited edition wines. Come on over, have a sample and learn how you can make your own great wines.
The Farmington store
will be closed from
Aug 28 - Sept 6.


More details on all this and more at the news page.




 



Simple Mead Recipe (Sack Mead)
10lbs quality wildflower honey
Champagne or sweet mead yeast
5tsp yeast nutrient
Approx. 3-4gal water

Dissolve honey in water at 90ºF to acheive starting gravity of 1.100-1.120.
Add yeast nutrient, then pitch yeast.

Ferment approx. 2 months in primary, then rack and ferment approx. 4 months in secondary. (It may be necessary to rack a third time depending on fermentation conditions and temperatures.)
When mead is completely finished, bottle and age forever.


Bees!

Look, it's an astronaut exploring the wilds of Farmington! Oh wait, it's just John tending to his bees. In the yard behind our Farmington store, John oversees no less than four hives, each of them abuzz with honey-making activity.

There are many different types of honey with varying flavor and aroma properties. It is the primary ingredient in mead -- which, by the way, is exactly as delicious as you're thinking it must be -- a honey wine that can be made sweet, dry, or semi-sweet. Our recipe above is for a sweet "sack" mead, which, after proper racking and fermentation, will produce a fantastic dessert-style wine.