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Old 18-09-2004, 09:18 PM
Jaques d'Alltrades
 
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Thames Valley Vineyard at Twyford. They do a very nice dry wine

called
"Regatta" (!). They also have a sweet wine which they call

"Botrytis"
(you'd think they could be a bit more imaginative, wouldn't you?).

It's
not bad - 10.5% alcohol and they produce it only when the conditions

are
right.


I don't get that. At only 10.5 % (weaselwater) and with a remaining
sugar content, they have to do something murderous to it to stop it
fermenting in storage.


To keep them as dessert wines I have pasteurised home-made wines in the
bottle on occasion.

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