winemaking

Home wine making is a legally protected and rewarding hobby that many people around the world enjoy.

The process is pretty straightforward. You combine grapes, juice or fruit with water, sugar, nutrients and yeast to get a fermentation going. Aging and the use of oak (with chips or cubes) can be done to add polish to red wines. It takes between 8 and 12 weeks to have a finished batch of wine and months of additional aging if you desire.

You can find resources all around the web on how to get started, where to buy equipment and ingredients and for recipes to use local fruits to make your own wine:

Great how-to and recipes from Jack Keller.

Buy supplies from Northern Brewer and many others.

Check out WineMaker Magazine for stories, how and events.

A recent article on wine making from the Ancient Fire Wine Blog.

The largest forums on wine making on the web are at WinePress and there is an up and coming community of wine loving bloggers at The Unreserved.

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• 11th Annual Petite Sirah Symposium ~ Registration has begun ~ Sponsored by Concannon Vineyard

  
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• French learned to make wine from Italians 2,400 years ago

  
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  The French werent the first to make wine? Mon dieu! But as anyone who has sipped a Bordeaux, Champagne or Burgundy can tell you, the French got pretty good at it once they learned how. And thanks to some molecular archaeology, researchers can now confirm they picked up these skills as early as 425 B.C. So who taught ...
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• State of The Art Sustainable Winery At UC Davis

  
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  The Jess S. Jackson Sustainable Winery Building When we think of sustainable wines, we sometimes stop with the grapes. We think of farmers in the vineyard who have taken precautions to grow the grapes as naturally as possible whilst conserving energy and water in the process. Wine, however, is made in wineries, ...
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• The Old World Craft of Barrel Making

  
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  Originally published on Cooking Up a Story McMinnville, Oregon A step in the winemaking process that is often overlooked, is the role of the barrel maker, referred to as the cooper. Rick DeFerrari, of Oregon Barrel Works , started learning how to make barrels back in 1992 where he apprenticed at the century old ...
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• OLD TIMERS Part One… (Re FR…)

  
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• We check in on the vineyards progress at the end of May

  
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  The end of May marks the end of our danger of frost and the end of any chance of spring rain.  As such, it is a good time to assess where we are.  Short version: things look good, and were on track for a solid harvest at a reasonably normal time.  For the long version, read on. Were toward the end of ...
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• Helllloooooo June! – The Horton Farmers Market

  
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• Beyond the Doobies ~ Making Their Own Wine

  
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  Beyond the Doobies, there’s a world of rock and rollers who have taken to making their own wines. Most of them have just lent their names to a label… They’re far from the madding crowd of a wine cellar. Can you say “trophies,” boys and girls? Someone else is doing all of the work, right [...] The post ...
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• Choosing the best cava: A matter of tastes

  
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  Having some knowledge on cava ‘s elaboration and classification can be a great help when choosing one. This product, created and developed in the shadow of champagne, has reached maturity as a quality sparkling wine with style and uniqueness. It is its thorough elaboration method and the aromas of the land which ...
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• Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo Receives UC Davis Winemaking Certificate

  
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  Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo (Photo from Messina Hof Winery) News: Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo Receives UC Davis Winemaking Certificate The credentials and winemaking accolades of Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo, son of Paul V. and Merrill Bonarrigo and heir-apparent at Messina Hof Winery , continue to grow. As reported in a ...
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• Earliest History of Grape Growing in Suisun Valley

  
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• WineMaker Magazine International Amateur Wine Competition 2013 Results

  
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  So the first order of business was to update the awards page. I posted the link on FB with the following: Shameless, yes. Boastful and proud, yes. The guy I am, yes. But make no mistake, this is serious business. 80 total awards. 28 for mead of which 26 have come in only the last 12 months!!! More career stats: ...
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