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Hanaâ: Hm. Good point, there may be some bottles from things like vanilla or various flavourings that could work for this.

NancyB: Every time I see your name, I think of a dear friend of my parents (and mine now, too), who is also Nancy B. I love her to bits, so you get positive vibes every time you post.

Nicola: We make it from kits, so it’s always been a grape base, but we sometimes do kits that have a fruit ‘reserve’. So, things like Green Apple Chardonnay or Strawberry Riesling. Those are good summery wines, especially when mixed with club soda. Right now we have a batch of Riesling going, that was given to us by our wine kit supplier when he came to our housewarming party. He even brought us custom labels for it!

Your cake looks grand. When you unlock the secret to the perfect grating of the chocolate, can you let me know? I think Jenn (Knitty Baker may have the answer!).

Also, wow that you make your own wine! Do you make grape wine or fruit wine?

Grating chocolate–I thought my “fine” Microplane got the chocolate too fine, so I didn’t have a tweed effect. I did forget to pull out the little attachment that holds small items for grating, which might have let me bear down harder and get bigger pieces. Or perhaps the larger grater would have been better. The mess seems to be inevitable, at least for my grating.