Wonders to be enjoyed close to home

For longer than I have been writing the columns in the Kings County Record, I have been making homemade wine.  We are working on adding a new page to this site which will allow me to share some methods and recipes to help others who want to learn about making wine.  Watch for that new page, coming soon (and subscribe to the newsletter if you want to be notified).  Meanwhile, here is a post that explains how I got involved in winemaking in the first place...

(c) R. L. Whitney.  Originally published June 22, 2010

We were living in England in 1971, the year King Tut came to the British Museum.  The lineups to see all that mysterious stuff, we were told, stretched “around the block.”  We gave him a miss, and did the same when he passed through Toronto.      

This last while we have been involved in mysteries of another kind, mysteries that we didn’t have to go anywhere to see and that, aside from the cost of a few supplies, made no demands on the wallet.  And it all happens right before our eyes.

I remember clearly how we got into this particular activity. We had just moved into the first house we owned in Toronto.  Johnny Mack, a neighbour across the street, came over one evening shortly after we had moved in, introduced himself and gave us, as a house-warming present, a bottle of wine he had made. 

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