General pressed by bikes wine

[leona]

has anyone tried it? i don't drink at all but having asked around I'm getting the impression that a wine that is a week old when it goes in the bottle isn't going to be terribly nice. i was really hoping that it would be grape juice so i could drink it.

 

before i decide who to pass it on to, i was wondering if anyone has opened theirs? either i give it to someone i like or someone i don't see...

[Guest EdEdEd]

What wine is this?

[leona]

We rode over grapes in the prologue and after you got your finishers medal u got a bottle of wine 'pressed by bikes'

[Helpmytrap]

No wine can be made in a week. My understanding is that the riders of either next year or 2016 will be receiving the bottles made from the pressed grapes of this year?

[Danger Dassie]

Remember going through this release from CE ...

 

“We picked them late last night so that they were nice and cold,” explained Meerendal cellar master Liza Goodwin. “Afterwards we’ll let them ferment for two days and we’ll bottle the wine on Wednesday.”

This would require a process to stop the fermentation on Tuesday and the addition of some “normal mix” to make the wine less sweet – the short fermentation period would produce a “sweetish red”.

http://www.treadmtb.co.za/absa-cape-epic-riders-wine-route/

[Blackbeard]

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

[G-Unit]

I have finished both bottles (mine and my wifes) and they were fine. That said, my standards are very low...

[G-Unit]

Life is too short to drink bad wine.

 

Actually, I work with 'Life's too short to ride **** bikes'.

[Guest EdEdEd]

We rode over grapes in the prologue and after you got your finishers medal u got a bottle of wine 'pressed by bikes'

Ooh, rubber wine!

[Cassie]

Rather keep it as a memento....do not open.

[waveduke]

I tried the wine and it was not to my liking.

It's rather on the sweet side.

[Jaco-fiets]

It normally takes a day or 2 before the juice starts fermenting. They basically stopped fermentation by probably adding some preservative or some other way. Effectively they just added a small bit of juice to lower cost bulk wine and stuffed that into a bottle. That is what I call anyway thinking of the timespan they had

Edited May 31, 2014 by Jaco-fiets

[V12man]

It normally takes a day or 2 before the juice starts fermenting. They basically stopped fermentation by probably adding some preservative or some other way. Effectively they just added a small bit of juice to lower cost bulk wine and stuffed that into a bottle. That is what I call anyway thinking of the timespan they had

 

That might explain why the label says 2012 on the back and 2014 on the front....

[GoLefty!!]

We rode over grapes in the prologue and after you got your finishers medal u got a bottle of wine 'pressed by bikes'

 

 

gimmick

[leona]

i wish it could have just been grape juice..

[fanievb]

My standards for wine.

 

Must have a screw top (who has time for corks)

Must be red

Must be under R80 (found some real gems at the NBS & Checkers)