Tesco 50% high juice wine

Id love to have a go at making my own wine! But ive never attempted anything like this before

Do i need to use demijohns etc? Is it expensive to set up and/or difficult to do?

Can someone tell me how you make it from fruit etc? Or is there a website that i can get the basics from please?

Thanks :thumb:

 

Hi PB,

There are many winemaking websites & you can make wine out of most things, except mushrooms and tomatoes.

If you just want to dabble then demijohns are a good start, you can usually get some off freecycle.

It doesn't cost a lot to start brewing & even the more expensive Items will last so many years and will have paid for themselves within the first few months, so it really is a good investment.

I'm still using the same funnel that I bought from boots in 1977.

Often you can just use the juice of vegetables to make wine & you still get to eat the veg

Ginger wine is good for a first attempt, very cheap & easy. You'll need a demijohn, airlock to keep the vinegar fly out, some wine yeast & nutrient, ginger & 2 & a half pound of sugar. Oh, and a bit of lemon Juice, yeast likes a slightly acid environment.

 

With wine going the way of petrol price wise, its worth doing my friend. Remember when honey was cheap enough to make mead

And remember Charlton Heston in Soylent Green, with the $50 a jar strawberries. The time Soylent Green was set is only 11 years away.

 

[size=large]My father was producing an excellent wine (just for the family). It keeps you very busy if you do it properly.[/size]

 

Hey Paula,

I bet that is a fantastic wine, was it from your Fathers own vines ? How long did he mature it ? and yes, I can imagine that is a lot of work.

 

[size=large]Yes about one hour from Turin, somewhere lost in a hill, he had this slanting piece of land with many rows of wine which is now all gone wild and he used to spend a lot of time there as an old man. [/size]

[size=large]I couldn't tell you the number of months used to produce the wine but it was many. [/size]

[size=large]At the start he would take very good care of the wines (you have to prune them in a certain way and then spray them with some green stuff) and then the grapes were collected and pressed with some big wooden tool and then I know that he would often mention the stirring and turning but since I have hardly been there where he kept all the wine making stuff, I don't know many details.[/size]

[size=large]It crossed my mind sometimes to take up this family tradition, but I am so not the person for too hard work (sad but true) besides it would entail living in Italy which is not in my plans.[/size]

 

Young Atticus L has just brought this thread to my attention again

For Petes sake () a report on the home made Rum goes like this.....

"That bottle you gave me really @^5$" me up last night!!"

I did tell Simon not to drink the whole bottle in one sitting :DOH::DOH:

It came out at about 30%