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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “winemaking”

 

• Wine Stores On the Net

  
  Googability - Small Business Website Spotlight — Authority: 123
  In recent years, like a lot of people, I’ve been buying more of my wine online. The picture I would prefer to hold of myself is the fellow who faithfully patronizes (perhaps plagues?) the local wine shops rather than browses some brightly arrayed screen. To be sure, I’d rather be there in person, discussing a ...
  1 week ago

• Blech wine additives

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 650
  When making homemade wine and specifically kits, the clearing of the wine often uses Kieselol followed by Chitosan. One of these adds a flavour to the wine that I absolutely find revolting. What could I use instead? I have made quite a bit of wine this past year from Kits and every time I add these as clearing ...
  1 week ago

• Just When I Was About to Write-off Texas Chardonnay

  
  VintageTexas — Authority: 451
  Just When I Was About to Write-off Texas Chardonnay Just about every year I vow to delete the word Chardonnay from the Texas wine lexicon, I find a reason not to. It usually comes after tasting another abomination of a wine made from flabby over ripe fruit with low acidity, high alcohol and the application of far ...
  1 week ago

• Ancient Fire Archeology – Finding Old Wines

  
  Ancient Firw Wine Blog — Authority: 85
  Before we get into this, I must define old wine as itpertains to my homemade wines. My first batch of wine went into the bottle in2004. For the first 2-3 years thereafter most of my wine was consumed by year’send and the few bottles that were given away were returned to me, likewise empty.As my annual production ...
  1 week ago

• New generation in wine stores

  
  Legal Information and Research — Authority: 117
  Select wine merchants Buying wine online is a useful and convenient way to source wines from unusual wine varieties. There are many advantages, and a couple of pitfalls to buying wine online. Why buy wine online? This may seem an unnecessary problem to you at first. If you can buy wine at your local supermarket, ...
  2 weeks ago

• History of Villemoustaussou Winemaking

  
  O'Vineyards Winemaker Blog — Authority: 109
  on loan from J. Heritier The land and vines that we refer to as O’Vineyards have been around for a very long time and they’ve had many names and many farmers. I’m always picking up little bits about the vineyard’s history, and a friend just loaned a book to me that might help shed some light on the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Everything Guide to Wine, by Peter Alig

  
  Wine Blog — Authority: 108
  The EVERYTHING Guide to Wine, by Peter Alig. This book is exactly what it calls itself… It’s about everything wine ~ except Petite Sirah, and you know how Petite centric I am. This isn’t a criticism, just an observation, because I’m always looking for authors who know about Petite and take the time to  help ...
  3 weeks ago

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