Sunday, December 9, 2007

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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