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I, for one, am all pumped up to be in this contest.

Never got around to bottling it. I really need to get on that. I was able to make a second batch out of the same cherries. It's just as good. Now I have a bunch of cherries sitting in the fridge waiting to be turned into jam and pies. Adult jams and pies. =)

Yup, that's how I remember seeing them. =) Don't forget to have a cherry with each glass of wine. You can probably get a buzz just off eating one. After my last batch is done, I think I'll try making cherry jam out of them. BTW: I saw in your pics that you pitted the cherries. I hadn't...

Looks great, Deezil! That's exactly what my batches end up looking like. @others (mass reply): I haven't fortified it with any other liquor, but I might try that with one of the batches. I have done a limoncello before, but this is slightly different. Instead of extracting the cherry essence...

Post back in a year when it's ready. =) I bet blueberries would work really well.

Got the answer: They're Mount Morenci Pie Cherries

I'm not sure. I think it was a Morello cherry, but according to my father, any sour or semi-sour cherry will do. I emailed the cherry farm I went to in 2009 to ask what kind they grow.

The recipe, BTW: Take washed/stemmed cherries. Put in jar. Cover with enough sugar, not so the jar is filled, but so the top layer is covered. Squirt fresh juice of 1 lemon in. Leave for a couple days, then mix to ensure lemon juice is everywhere. Leave sealed for 3 months. Test, adjust...

A bit of history: Growing up, there was always this jar in the back of the fridge. It held a few cups of very wrinkled cherries, floating in a dark red liquid. It was vishnik, and that same jar had been sitting in a family fridge for decades. My family calls it wine, but I suspect it's a...

Cool, thanks for the info! The gaskets look okay, but if I'm going to order corks and a corker, I might get some extra gaskets to be safe. @Doug: Could you provide me a direct link to the gaskets? I tried searching for the product on your site, but I suck at searching. =)

I've been collecting bottles to reuse to bottle a batch of wine I'm making. I'll be sanitizing, using fresh corks, etc, etc. But I have a couple of these types of bottles, that have a plastic bung stopper that is held in place with a-- metal-- thing. (see pic below) My question is: are...