It will warm you like no other, and even goes well mixed with V-8 Juice for a Bloody Mary affect with much less alcohol than Vodka delivers. I enthusiastically agreed, but set a bottle aside to enter in the next competition. On April 18th, it won it's category and narrowly missed being selected Best of Show in the non-grape division. My thanks go to the judges in the San Antonio Regional Wine Guild who had the guts to confer a blue ribbon to a decidedly different wine. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as we do.
Jalapenos are dark green and turn red when over-ripe.
Because this is a cooking wine or sipping wine, you do not want to bottle it in regular wine bottles if you don't have to. Slice length-ways and remove seeds for mild heat, leave them in for very hot wine. Place peppers in blender or food chopper with 2 cups water and chop coarsely. Separately, chop or mince raisins. Put raisins in nylon straining bag and, over primary, pour chopped jalapenos in with raisins.