Making Good Wine for a Change

As it turns out, one can buy concentrates of various grape varietals on the internet. You can actually buy concentrates of other things there too. Having discovered once and for all that I can make wine, I have set out to determine whether I can make good wine. So, I ordered a couple concentrates, one Merlot and one Chardonnay. This is one of the great benefits of employment. So, I poured both of them into my large, 1.5 gallon pickling jars and mixed them up with water—gave both yeast nutrient and the Merlot tanin. I also decided to make it a mead, Merlot mead sounds like it would be nice in my head. So I added about 1.5 pounds of honey to it, any more would make it more alcoholic than I was shooting for in this case. I figure it'll take awhile to age, I'll probably oak it or something. The Chardonnay should be good earlier, might make it designated Date Night Wine. Drinking your date's homemade wine sounds vaguely romantic (at least if it's good. Drinking your date's bad homemade…