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Another Glass of Chabernet

Surprise in a Tequila Bottle

May 13, 2014 by chabernet 9 Comments

... and it is not a worm. The hand-blown Patron bottle is a thing of beauty, and the Patron Silver Tequila is not bad either (see below for our perfect Margarita recipe). So, it came as no surprise when my wife asked me to retrieve an empty bottle from our recycle bin. What to do with an empty tequila bottle? Why, you re-fill it with home-made fruit-flavored Vodka. I’d expect nothing less from the woman who coined the word Chabernet. This time she substituted Vodka infused with foraged Pitanga (Surinam Cherry), but any edible fruit might work. A club recalling the days of the Pan Am Clippers In Hawaii, Guava also grows wild, as does Lilikoi (passion fruit), and Mountain Apple. In Texas, Wild Plum trees abound, as do wild Persimmon Read more [...]

Filed Under: Cooking, Wine and Spirits Tagged With: Agave, flavored vodka, forage, Margarita, Patron, texas, wild fruit

Pitanga Flavored Vodka

April 28, 2014 by chabernet 2 Comments

It is perfectly fitting that this first post should be about something very odd, but hopefully interesting and useful. Anyone familiar with foraging in Hawaii or Florida has probably spied a bush loaded with red berries. And, anyone brave enough to taste the berry would have a reaction based upon the exact stage of ripeness of the fruit. At any stage other than being ripe enough to drop off its stem, this fruit will be very sour and quite bitter. However, when you can easily remove the fruit without twisting it off its stem, it is deliciously sweet and tart with a pleasing vegetal aftertaste, and just a slight note of bitterness (tannins). Sounds like a wine description, doesn’t it? Not being wine makers, we decided to attempt to make flavored Read more [...]

Filed Under: Cooking, Wine and Spirits Tagged With: Aperitivo, flavored vodka, pitanga, Surinam Cherry

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