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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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McLaren Vale Wine Makes Waves
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Mclaren Vale wine is produced in the south of Australia where many of the family owned vineyards are over 100 years\’ old. Some have been developed into boutique vineyards that supply the local fine restaurants with signature wines. The visitor to the area will be surprised by the choice of cafes and fine food ...1 day ago -
Wine Down Under
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Curtis family entering the Chinese wine market with premium McLaren vale wines. The Curtis Family Vineyards are established just west of the township of McLaren Vale The story of the Curtis Family Vineyards is really the story of how everything old came new again…of how European immigrants came to Australia, ...1 day ago -
Great Place – McLaren Vale Premium Wine
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McLaren Vale, the home of the Curtis Family Vineyards, is just 45 minutes drive south of South Australias capital of Adelaide, has been making wine for one and a half centuries. Thats not as long as wine has been made in Italy, but the results are just as encouraging. And how a family with its ancestry dating back to ...3 days ago -
Wine Stores On the Net
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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
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
Just When I Was About to Write-off Texas Chardonnay
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
Ancient Fire Archeology – Finding Old Wines
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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 ...2 weeks ago -
New generation in wine stores
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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 -
What do the New Acres of Texas Grapes Hold in Store for Wine Consumers?
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What do the New Acres of Texas Grapes Hold in Store for Wine Consumers? In my previous blog post ( Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey) , I showed that Texas wine were heading south: heading for the southern reaches of Europe for grape varieties that ...3 weeks ago -
History of Villemoustaussou Winemaking
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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 ...3 weeks ago -
Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey
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Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey To some wine consumers, I am sure that this data will fit their category of “Too Much Information” or “Why Should I Care”. The information that I am talking about is in the above table and comes from a survey ...3 weeks ago -
The Everything Guide to Wine, by Peter Alig
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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 ...4 weeks ago
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