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Welcome to our blog. After a few years of enjoying the Local Wines offered here in Wisconsin, my husband thought it would be fun to venture into Wine-making of our own. I convinced him to start small by planting a small vineyard in our backyard...just to see how much work it really entails and to make sure we enjoy it before going too crazy with a Winery and all that. We planted our initial vineyard last year and the plants just took off. They did WAY better than we had expected. So this year we decided to allow some of the grapes to go to fruit and do a trial run with the wine-making.

So far we've harvested about 100lbs of grapes and we still have almost half of them left to harvest! Yikes!!! So today we went shopping at our local Wine, Beer, and Coffee Supply Store, Grape Grain and Bean, for all of our wine-making supplies. We have enough to get us started   and will probably have to head back in a few weeks to round out our supplies..

 It's exciting to finally be to the point of making the wine. We have 6 different varieties of grapes: Kay Gray, Edelwiess, Frontenac, Frontenac Gris, St. Croix, and Swenson Red. Three are supposed to be for making White Wines and three are for making Red Wines. This year we are going to combine and make a White using all the whites and a Red using all the reds. Follow along as we bumble and stumble our way thru this journey. Neither of us has any real experience with making wine other than taking tours at various wineries in the area. My husband Brad has been studying up on the internet and reading everything he can get his hands on.....Wish us luck!!