There is a smell that reminds me of the wine which used to bubble away in the demijohns on the windowsills of our house. |
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Ivan cast a look at the table set with demijohns of homemade wine and crusty loaves of rye bread. |
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The oil is stored in 5 litre plastic demijohns or beer bottles which have been cleaned well and hermetically sealed. |
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To begin with, most wine was sold in glass demijohns rather than in bottle. |
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Bottling long overdue demijohns of wine and generally tidying up has restored domestic harmony up to a point. |
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The CD cover features the band members at a dinner table that is loaded with spaghetti, large demijohns of red wine, and chunks of Parmesan cheese. |
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The 1959 vintage was just recently transferred to demijohns, to avoid its becoming overly woody. |
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Its products were landed at a small number of southern coastal ports and in standard cases of bottles and demijohns which could be quickly counted. |
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The imported liquor trade confined itself to a relatively narrow coastal strip because the fragile, bulky, heavy bottles and demijohns imposed transport restrictions. |
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So, he went to BURGUNDY with barrels and demijohns on a cart, containing KIRSCH which he then exchanged for WINE which he brought back to FOUGEROLLES to sell. |
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In accordance with the centuries-old method, the core of the distilling process is preserved in enamel or stainless steel tanks, or in glass demijohns which also help to retain the transparency of the brandy. |
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But still fermentation buckets, demijohns and swing top bottles are eagerly being whisked off shelves by people ready for their first dalliance with home-brewing. |
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I'm put off, however, by all that mucking around with sterilising tablets, yeast and glass demijohns to make something that's never going to be as nice as wine made from grapes. |
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