We Tried Making Bubblegum Wine Again (It Got Weird)

Day one of vintage without Brendan. He's in Austria. I'm (Henry) running the vlog. And the experiment he started before he left — sealing whole Barbera berries in our cold store under CO2, no fermenter, no crushing — is sitting in the basement waiting to be checked. We tried another method earlier in vintage and it failed. This is take two, on a bigger scale, and we genuinely couldn't find any record of anyone else making wine this way. The fruit came out tasting like bubblegum. Confected, lifted, weirdly tropical — the kind of flavour you'd expect from a candy aisle, not 4.8 tonne of red grapes. But there's a complication. When we ran it through the destemmer, half the berries wouldn't release from the stems. Laura had never seen it before. Neither had I. So we split the batch — half pressed, half straight to tank — and we're going to taste them separately before we decide what to do. Also in this one: Jess walks me through residual sugar testing in the lab (I now sort of understand titration), Stove moves wine into a 3,000-litre foudre that might not actually be 3,000 litres, and I take the camera home to open a five-year-old Pastifarian that's been cooking in my garage shed for four years. First glass was great. Second glass went down the sink. If you want me to follow one wine — one vineyard, one variety — all the way from fruit sample to bottle, drop it in the comments. I'm leaning Adelaide Hills Fiano. And if you've got notes on the vlog format while Brendan's away, tell me. I'll read them and I'll change things based on what you say, because I'm a people pleaser. #bottleshock #unicozelo #carbonicmaceration #winemaking #vintage2026 Learn More About Us: https://bottleshock.tv/ We're Thirsty! Buy Us A Glass Of Wine!: https://ko-fi.com/wineforthepeople We're Thirsty! Buy Us A Glass Of Wine!: https://buymeacoffee.com/wineforthepe... WHAT WINE GLASSES DO WE USE? 🍷 Our FAVORITE Tasting Glass: https://geni.us/rYhO4 🍷 The ULTIMATE Blind Tasting Glass: https://geni.us/AEiBRj 🍷 The CHAMPAGNE Glass: https://geni.us/bO3uH4 🍷 The RIESLING Glass: https://geni.us/Y6ic 🍷 The SAUVIGNON BLANC Glass: https://geni.us/bSQ5S 🍷 The DECANTER In The Background: https://geni.us/srA2IL Hit That Subscribe & Thumbs Up Button! 👍 JOIN THE GROWING WINE COMMUNITY ON DISCORD:   / discord   DIFFERENT DROP COLLECTION FOR 10% OFF: https://www.differentdrop.com/collect... Want To Send In Some Wine For Review? (Our Address) : 24 Victoria St, Gumeracha SA 5233 Instagram: @bottleshocktv   / bottleshocktv