Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Making Your Own Wine -Fun, Easy And Delicious!

By Georgia Sutherland

Making home made wine is a fast growing hobby. No wonder, making wine at home has a variety of benefits.

One reason is that the information about wine making is becoming much more available. Books with wine recipes, and a number of "How to's" can easily be found making it easy to get started.

One other reason is that making your own wine can be a lot less expensive than purchasing wine in the store.You can make wine for pennies per bottle. Big difference from the ever increasing prices of commercial wine.

But my favorite reason is that it is just plain fun to make your own wine. There is something so gratifying to choose the fruit, choose the recipe and the type of yeast, prepare the must, nurse it, follow the fermentation... all the steps until you can uncork your own proudly made delicious and unique wine.

Home made wine can be a wonderful and one of a kind gift, of course in a beautiful bottle and with your own label. Having friends and family over for wine tastings of various wines you have made is another fun aspect of home wine making.

It is easy to get started even of you have never made wine before. There is no need to purchase expensive equipment or gadgets. You will need a few simple and inexpensive things such as a vessel to do the fermenting in. -that can be a five gallon bucket, and air lock and some tubing to decant the wine with.

There are basically three levels of home wine making.

1. Purchasing a wine kit. Here everything is included, you need only follow the instructions.

2.Making wine from fruit juices.

3. Making wine from fruit and berries.

Making your very own wine is a satisfying hobby and art. It is pleasing and nourishing to the palate as well.

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