Final New Wines of 2009

This past weekend we released the last of this year's new wines: Blueberry Banana Splat™, an easy drinking blueberry banana. This joined Wuby Wabbit White™ (a semi-sweet white made from the delaware grape) and Ravishing Sunrise™ (a wine base lemoncello). Check out our website to see these and others.

Who is the "Pazdar Beverage Company LLC"?

For those of you who have paid by credit card when purchasing wine, you may have noticed "Pazdar Beverage Company" on your credit card statement. "Pazdar Beverage Company???" you might ask, who are they? To explain this, I need to back up slightly:

"Pazdar Winery" is our brand name under which we bottle all of our wines

"Pazdar Beverage Company LLC" is the actual name of our company. In 1995 we purposely set it up this way so that those (hopefully our future generations) that follow us and ourselves were not restricted to making only the finest creative wines in the world. Who knows, someday if we ever have them, a grandchild will decide that they also want to make soda or some other creative beverage. By being a "beverage company" and not just a "winery", they will have that freedom.

New Wines

We've released several new wines in the past month including:

2008 Reserve Red

Removing Wine Labels

Okay, so its been a while since I posted something on this blog. Been busy with the winery, new website, creating a facebook page for the winery, etc.

One question we've heard is "how do you remove wine labels?" We have found by soaking the bottle in cool / cold water will gently loosen up the glue on the back of the label. It can then be carefully pulled off. Depending on the label, some may even just fall off by soaking.

What is wine (yes, we actually had at least one customer debate this)?

"Wine" as per 27CFR24 (code of federal regulations) "when used without qualification, the term includes every kind (class and type) of product produced on bonded wine premises from grapes, other fruit (including berries), or other suitable agricultural products and containing not more than 24 percent of alcohol by volume."

Why is the grape sugar level important with wines?

Yeast converts sugar to alcohol. Roughly 2% sugar will yield 1% alcohol. An example, grapes with 24% sugar level will produce wine with approximately 12% alcohol. The riper the fruit, the higher the sugar level and the lower the acid or tartness level.

New Blog

We created this site for you. This is your place to ask questions of the winemaker, post your views, and your ideas. This is also where we will be sharing questions that we have been asked at various festivals / farmers markets.