A Visit to a Home Wine & Beer Making Stores

On October 30, my family went on a trip to a Wine & Beer Making Store in New Jersey. My freind Judy's son picked us up in the morning. then we went to Clifton, New Jersey.

Clifton is a small town known as the food capital of North Jersey. One of the tourist attractions is Corrado's Wine & Beer Making Store. Complete with a press room, it is the hub for wine and beer makers in the greater New York metropolitan area. The store was full of fourmet baskets with themes such as "Sweet Gestures," "Family Feast" and "Gallant Affair" are impressive gifts.

October is the best season for visitors to buy grapes here and take home to make wine with. There are a variety of kinds of grapes for sale. they are of different colors, red, purple, green, and black. All put in boxes. Each box weighs 25 lbs. The price for each box ranges from $25, $28 to $30. Besides grapes, visitors can also buy grape juice to take home for winemaking. There is a big blender in the store which presses grapes and makes fresh grape juice. Visitors can buy containers from the store and then fill them with fresh grape juice to take home. After visitors get home, they can pour the grape juice into a jug, put on a lid but don't seal it too tight. One month later, pour the juice into a bottle and this time make sure to seal it tight. Let it sit there for one month and then you can drink it. If you want it to taste better, you can add honey or sugar into the juice.

Doctors srongly recommend that we should drink one ounce of wine a day to stay healthy. Let's enjoy the wine and stay healthy!

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Hi. Welcome to my Blog. I have two names. One is my Chinese name: So Chun Kwong. The other is my American name: Christina. Most of my friends call me Christina. I speak several languages: Cantonese, Taishanese, Mandarin and some Shanghainese. I come from Anhui Province, China. I lived in Hong Kong for trwo years. After that I came to America in 1980.I have been here for 27 years and have been away from China for almost 30 years. The first job I got after I came to America was a seamstress. I worked in garment factories for 22 years. After 911, the company I worked for closed and I lost my job. It was hard to find another job. Then, finally, I got another job to work in a jewelry company. I worked there for 3 years but then quit because I didn't make enough money to support the family due to the slow business of the company. I switched to a different job - the job I am doing now as a home attendant. Since then, I have worked for a home care company and my job is to take care of elderly people. I cook for them, talk to them, make sure they take their medicine on time and sometimes take them outdoor to get some sunshine and fresh air. Some elderly people I take care of are sometimes moody picky, and even grumpy and hard to please, but I understand them and try to be patient. This is my job and I can't afford to lose it. Now I am quite used to it and the job is becoming easier for me.