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Home Winemaking
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Home Winemaking

You're probably better off learning to make beer/spirits at home, depending on your local laws.

As far as I'm aware there's more information readily available for brewing beer + distillation.

Wine is an entirely different beast. Are you going to grow your own grapes? Are you going to source them from a grower? Are you going to purchase them by the ton (as growers usually sell them)? Can you guarantee that the grower is giving you good quality fruit rather than shitty unripe fruit? Can you tell the difference?

Of course if you just want to cook up some alcoholic liquid maybe the above doesn't matter (and worst case you could distill the result into a brandy of unpredictable quality). But if you want to make a true quality wine, you'll need to take it seriously.

There is the phenomenon of the "virtual winery", a person or persons who form a group to:

a) buy grapes from growers
b) send them to a winemaking facility to make something to their specs
c) a storage/maturation facility (if you decide you want oak character in your wine)
d) bottling +/- labelling facility

Obviously this is on a whole other scale than your typical hobbyist - virtual wineries are typically crafting a wine for a specific market with specific tastes.

But if you can achieve this stage, you'll make a lot of money and have an easy conversation starter at dinner/house parties.

Best of luck! [Image: biggrin.gif]

Feel free to PM me for wine advice or other stuff
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