A Grape Escape from Daily Hassles Entertainment Into Oak Barrels, Where It Sits and Is Tested
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• -• Your Local Connection June 23, 2005 SentineNorth Brunswick • South Brunswick l Handyman So. Brunswick teen repairs bridge for Scout project Page 4 SCOn PJLLING staff Andrew Scheckner, 13, of North Brunswick, rams a friend with his bumper car at the North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival June 14. Story, page 3. A Grape Escape from daily hassles Entertainment into oak barrels, where it sits and is tested. Check out this week's Dayton winemaking Four months later the wines are racked, Just Got According to Nye, sediment (or lees) that has Page 20 school described as a fallen to the bottom is removed, the barrels 'playground for adults' arc cleaned, and wine is put back or "topped off." BY MELISSA CIFELLI The final step is to bottle, cork, label and Quote of the week: Stall'Writer shrink seal the wine, Nye said. t's all about fun and good wine. According to Nye, proper testing and "Economically, I think we're readings are critical throughout the wine- doomed by imports. I believe The Grape Escape, South Brunswick's first and only wine-making school, has making stages. It is particularly crucial to in a nice balance but we I maintain a clean barrel to prevent disease. completed two successful wine seasons and underestimate the quality of "Once a barrel is diseased, it is ruined for- American goods." is now taking orders for its Fall Crush. The school, located on Stults Road in ever," Nye said. Nye said The Grape Escape uses the lat- — Susan Coppola Dayton, blends Old World wine-making with % Page 11 the latest technology, according to proprietor est in cleaning and sanitizing technology, Thomas Nye. such as their $10,000 O-Zone machine, Nye, along with his wife, Nancy, brought which cleanses barrels without the use of The Grape Escape concept to South chemicals. Index Brunswick in October. Wine's pH levels are monitored, as too Classified/Employment .35 MIGUEL JUAREZ staff high a level of sulfate creates a bad taste. The Grape Escape offers beginner, inter- Thomas and Nancy Nye, owners of The Grape mediate and advanced winemaker courses Readings for a grape's sugar content must Crossword 21 Escape wlne-maklng school, stand by thealso be at correct levels, Entertainment 20 for two wine seasons. The first season, which pressing machine used to crush grapes. creates wine with California grapes, runs "Certain practices have to be followed," Obituaries .27 from September to October, and the second wines are popular favorites, Nye said. Nye said in the wine-making process. Opinion .18 season, specializing in Chilean wine, runs To make your own bottle, it takes only Those tests, according to Nye, are not Police Beat , ,22 from April to May. four one-horn" sessions spread over a 10- often done -with homemade wines, "People just go crazy for California wine," month period. All this is done so The Grape Escape can Real Estate ........ ,28 ' In the first session, Nye said, grapes are provide customers with winery-quality prod- Sports , ... .25 Nye said. California's grapes, which create wines pushed through a crushing machine. ucts, Nye said. with gvcat consistency and numerous fruity Students learn how to destem and crush Already, The Grape Escape has made 60 wines, are more well-known in Ameiica, grapes, and start the first fermentation. barrels of wine from its first two seasons, making it a popular and marketable season, The next session starts 10 to 14 days with 40 from the California varieties, and 20 Nye said. after fermentation begins. According to Nye, of Chilean. skins are removed and juices are pressed Varieties such as Barbera and Sangiovese (Continued on page 9) 2 SENTINEL, June 23, 2005 NO ONE DOES ARTS, CRAFTS & FLORALS BETTER! EjHanes 100 Pg. 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SENTINEL, June 23, 2005 3 PHOTOS BY SCOn PILLING Staff It was a bumpy ride for two visitors (above) at the North Brunswick Youth Sports Festival June 14. At right, Kayla Irlzarry, 8, takes a ride on the merry-go-round. A 'Field of Dreams' in North Brunswick common funnel cake. Annual carnival Campbell didn't enjoy the typical carni- raises funds for val food. "I don't like hot dogs and hamburgers. youth sports teams Maybe I'll have ice cream and smoothies, I1Y JENNIFER AMATO something sweet," she said. '• Staff Writer However, the food distribution created a bit of controversy. For the first year, the NORTH BRUNSWICK - Play ball! sports organizations set up a tent to cook Thanks to the Youth Sports Festival their own food. Although Amusements of before to prepare, we work from 6 until 10 and attractions. held June 14 through June 19, the spoils America was able to rent out food stations, [p.m.], and then we clean up," Ferrotti said. "The thing with the smallest woman organizations in town can be assured they festival organizers said they abused their "It is nice because we've got a good team. [titled ^World's Smallest Woman'] was can continue to play. contract. While it's a lot of work ... it's nice because weird because you don't expect it. She's a The festival, now in its eighth year, "We had an agreement, which they it's for the kids." real woman, but pretty small. It's kind of fund-raises to support the soccer club, the broke," said Michael And the kids were the most important surprising," said Andy Martin, of Franklin. travel basketball club, the softball and Ferrotti, one of the part of the festival. His friend, Raya Stantcheva, also of baseball clubs, and Adams AC football and food handlers. Maria Cukor, Franklin, liked the rides the best. cheerleading. "Amusements of of East Bruns- "Sea Ray, 1001 Nachts and Tornado "This was the best one we've had yet," America was sup- wick, brought her were my favorites," she said. "Andy told me said Jerry Kahn, one of the committee posed to have no daughter, Eve, about [this]. Carnivals are fun so I decided members. 'There was nice weather so it games. They were lim- who had her entire to go. I will come back again." was really successful. The weather was the ited to the number of face painted like a Cecilia DellaVilla and Samantha key. We broke records; we had close to food stands they could monarch butterfly, Ortolano, both of Milltown, loved the 20,000 people over the course of six days. It have; only one to see Mr. Ray per- bumper cars. looked like the 'Field of Dreams' on sausage and pepper form on June 16. "They were the best. It was the funnest Saturday with all of the cars on Route 1. and one cheese steak, . "We have two ride ever, just being free and bumping into Everyone enjoyed themselves. There were and no funnel cakes," of his CDs, He is a anybody," Ortolano said. "This is a really a lot of smiling faces." said Rich Fabian, also Jjig attraction in great carnival." Evgenia Campbell, of Latvia, who is vis- serving the food. "We our house," said DellaVilla agreed. iting the U.S., heard about the carnival moved our funnel- Maria Cukor. "The people here are a lot more friendly through her friend, She said in Latvia cake maker out front Sisters Steph- than people at any carnivals," she said. there are similar carnivals to the ones in because we figured it any and Solace One of those people was Councilman America. was a better location Mensah-Narh Ralph Andrews, who volunteered to run "There are, but maybe not so big. I like [since their stand was played Let's Go the spinner and shuffleboard games. this because it is more for children. [In located at the Fishing, where "I was one of the founding people of Latvia] there is maybe only a merry-go- entrance to the festi- you win a prize North Brunswick basketball. I remember roimd. I have pleasure looking at things val]. It has proven to once you hook a when [the festival] was back in Sabella and at the children," she said. be helpful. We sold as fishing pole into Park, and there were youth sports games The children had plenty to look at as many [Thursday the mouth of a played and a little carnival. Over the years • well. Amusements of America furnished night] as [Wednesday] shark. it has expanded to this," he said. the rides, including the Scrambler, Musik night." "I never went The Party Dolls, The Nerds, Glen Express, 1001 Nachts, Wacky Worm roller Other than the fishing before Burtnik's Rock Academy and "Kenny the coaster, Chilly Willy, Cliff Hanger, Tornado, slight discrepancy, [but] I didn't want Dom" appeared.