anyone make their own wine?

Rival178

I'm going to try making my own homemade wine from a kit. Does anyone have a favorite kit they use, or any advise they could share.

surfanddestroy

I make wine; have been doing it for a while now. I haven’t found a favourite yet though just keep trying different ones.
The only advice I could share really is to keep it at a stable temperature and make sure that everything you use is extremely clean and sterile.

Ms. Haiku

My family did growing up. That was an annual pain in the ass. 40 crates of grapes and we used a crank thing where we smushed the grapes into a container. Then you cover the container with a cloth of somesort for a week, but every day the stuff has to be smushed down. Then the stuff is strained and it goes into the barrel. The strained out residue/grape stuff could be used as compost. Oddly enough for the years we made wine I was never a part of the transferring into a barrel. 6 months later, you somehow take the stopper/wax thing out of the barrel, and with a long wide tube, suck on it a little, and voila the wine comes out.

It could probably be a really good friend/food/good music type of experience. It's not worth it if it's not an enjoyable experience.

Thoughts_Arrive

lol @ kits.
Do it the old fashioned way like my dad, who has been making wine annually for the last 50+ years.