Making Vino!

Stirring in the Chemicals

Back in April, on my Good News! post commenter Janette suggested that Jordan and I look into making wine as a way to help manage our spending on Alcohol without having to necessarily limit our consumption of it...well Janette - thank you!

For my 30th birthday back in July my mom and my husband went in together to buy a starter kit and the supplies along with a three hour course and I was up and on my way!  I've bottled my first kit, and have started on my second - a Reisling kit from Costco.

Bottling

So far it's been super fun!  We hit a garage sale and got more supplies so I could keep going and keep learning.  I want to start a third wine (another red) and then start to investigate beer making with Jordan!

I need to be careful not to spend too much $$ as I get started - but I think I now have everything I need to keep going (except of course a new wine kit which includes the juice and chemicals to make the wine).

Date Night

Jordan and I don't really have a date night, but we had a date last night! I think we ought to make it a regular thing. It was a lot of fun!

I got a $50 gift certificate from Milestones, a pretty nice restaurant, from someone at work yesterday (who was just thanking me for being awesome while she was sick and away from work)... So we took that $50 gift card and another $36.50 (tip and a bottle of wine) and had ourselves a 3 course meal!

It was fun because I got to surprise Jordan with it, and we've been Soooo Frugal lately so it was a good treat!

It was pretty great.

I like date night (hint, hint).