Sunday, January 14, 2007

Make your own wine.

If you have great grapes, the right equipment, an experienced wine maker and $5,000, it's pretty easy to make a barrel of good wine - even if you live in Finland.
But how do you make wine? Seems it isn't that difficult. Here is the process laid out in simple form:

Wine making is a fairly simple process and can be accomplished in eight easy steps:

  1. Choose grapes/fruit.
  2. Crush grapes/fruit.
  3. Strain juice into fermenter.
  4. Inoculate juice with yeast. (Yeast Types)
  5. Allow wine to ferment. Be patient!
  6. Rack wine (that is, move the wine containers as needed). Be patient!
  7. Bottle wine.
  8. Age wine. Be patient!
Want some more information? Well I'm happy to help with an assortment of helpful links from Google.

http://ingeb.org/junk/wine.html

http://www.honeycreek.us/advanced.htm
http://winemakermag.com/yourfirstwine/grapes.html
http://www.brewerylane.com/getting_started.html