Winemaking Challenges

These Winemaking Challenges are open to all Queen's Hamlet Co-op Members. You must use ingredients that you've either grown yourself, purchased from a QH Farmer and/or purchased from the QH Co-op.

Please post pictures of your vinting success to verify your accomplishments.

Bronze Award

You've heard the grape vines whispering your name and you've run to answer the call. Will you make grape juice, vinegar or a truly fine wine? Only time will tell. Here's the list of requirements for the Bronze Award.

• Make one bowl of grapes
• Make five barrels of wine (any quality excluding grape juice)
• Label five barrels of wine with either the QH Co-op label or your own personally customized label.

Silver Award

You're really starting to enjoy the fruits of your labours; continually refining your winemaking knowledge & process. You've also started to branch out into more exotic wines pressed from the lovely kalana fruit. Here's the list of requirements for the Silver Award.

• Make ten barrels of fine quality (Reserve or Great Reserve) wine. You may include previous barrels (from the Bronze Award) in your total count.
• Make one barrel of kalana wine (any quality)
• Use the "bottler/labeller" to create two bottles of kalana wine from your barrel
• Use the "bottler/labeller" to label your kalana wine

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Congratulations!! That's a lot of grape pressing )

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the ka-la-na barrel is represented via the two bottles.

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Your wine cellar / basement looks great! Congrats on the Silver

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Silver

If anyone wants me I will be in my new basement for the next few days..... building....

Claire-Sophie spins around in her basement singing I've got a Hangover wo oh

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Silver Winemaking Challenge has been added! Have at it!!

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Nice! You even got some grand reserve )

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So much wine and I know not who to drink it with!

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Congratulations!

Yes, the Hamlet grapes are extra special. Grown with love by a bunch of exacting individuals all working together

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Have spent a couple of weeks on this, it was a lot of fun to do. Really excited when one barrel turned out Grand Reserve; the others are all Reserve. There really must be something about the Hamlet grapes! :D

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And for the Bronze ... Four Barrels of Reserve and One Barrel of Great Reserve

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Ty - spent ages erasing bits off to make the alphas and three uploads to make sure it was in the centre of the barrel :D

And yey for my third Bronze \o/

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Excellent! Love your label

Bronze is on the way.

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Finally!! It was like watching paint dry but it's done :D

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My first part of the challenge, a bowl of grapes earlier today.

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Thought I'd better start recording my winemaking progress before I either drink it away or lose my barrels in inventory! For the record; two barrels of Reserve 2016 and a Bowl of Grapes.

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Yes, "post as you go" please. You can add the other photos as a reply to your original post so they will all be grouped together.

Nice start! You even got a barrel of reserve on the first try. That's because of the excellent care given to our Hamlet grapes )

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Post as we go? Here is my start....

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Winemaking Champions

BRONZE AWARD:

• Claire-Sophie de Rocoulle
• Tatiana Dokuchic
• Frances Stuart/Lady Hartfield
• Hatsuka
• @ardrhys

SILVER AWARD:

• Claire-Sophie de Rocoulle
• Hatsuka
• @ardrhys

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Tada!

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Looking good, Ardrhys!  Congratulations

I'll forward your award inworld.

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Hic!

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Hope you haven't consumed it all waiting for your Silver Award, Ardrhys!

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Perhaps a new winemaking challenge for the new kind of winemaking?

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