Making Wine

Crushing grapes with your hands sometimes comes with the territory of making wine, jam and pie. It can be very effective for recipes but not so great for your hands, often leaving them horribly...

Making your own wine is a labor of love. Whether you grow your own fruit or painstakingly ferment store-bought varieties, your homemade wine is always an appreciated gift come holiday time....

This special spiced red wine is certainly delicious enough on it's own, but when you add the grape ice ring you have a truly special drink. Serve this at all your gatherings and parties. Not only...

Wine makers commonly use white grapes to make wine at home. Vitis labrusca is a popular species of white grape in the United States and is the source of most white grape juice. These grapes are...

Making sweet wine at home is both easy and inexpensive. For under $20, you can produce about two cases of wine. The main ingredients you will need are red grape concentrate, port yeast---since you...

Wine making can be a fun experiment for those over the age of 21. It is also less expensive than buying wine at a wine and spirits store. Wine making can turn into a hobby and you can invite...

Using Welch's Grape Juice is often the first wine that a budding winemaker makes. You can either buy Welch's Grape Juice in the bottle or you can purchase the 100 percent grape juice concentrate...

Balloon wine enables novices to prepare homemade wine without purchasing expensive specialty supplies. Making wine out of grape juice requires fermenting the juice with yeast and sugar. A balloon...

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice. The alcohol content of wine isn't concentrated through distillation and is primarily determined by the sugar content of the grape...

There are four basic steps in winemaking: processing the ingredients, fermentation, bottling and aging. There are many tips and ways to make wine depending on its complexity. There are also...

Originally from Croatia, the zinfandel grape is now grown mostly in the United States, particularly in California. This makes it a popular choice for the home vinter and winemaker, especially...

Wine fermentation takes place when yeast consumes the natural sugar present in grape juice and converts it into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Although in nature there are yeasts presents on the...

Pinot Noir wine is a light- or medium-body red wine with hints of currant and blackberry. Made from a small, thin-skinned grape called the pinot, Pinot Noir is lighter in color than most red wines...

Formed from molten lavas interacting with groundwater deep within the earth's crust, zeolites are naturally occurring microscopic crystals that are being used to promote health in both plants and...

Wine has grown in popularity in the United States, and hand in hand with that has been an interest in winemaking. Making wine at home is actually fairly straightforward. In Europe, there are many...

A very simple alcoholic wine can be made from frozen grape juice concentrate. While the wine will not win any awards and be snubbed by wine connoisseurs, grape juice concentrate wine is an easy...

If you are wanting to make wine out of grape juice then you need to know some facts before you get started. It is true that you can make wine from grape juice concentrate but it is important to...

The most important aspect of wine making is fermentation, which occurs when yeast, a single-cell plant, eats the sugar in plant extract and produces alcohol and carbon dioxide as waste products....

Grape vines are a peculiar genus of fruit-bearing plant, in that they are one of those plant types that produce better fruit under more adverse conditions. Put a grape vine in good soil with...

A nice glass of wine is a delightful addition to any meal. Wouldn't it be fun at your next social gathering if you could point out that you, yourself, had made the wine? Making wine is a fun,...

Store-bought grape juice provides the base for an easy, inexpensive wine to make at home. This grape juice wine is a great way for novice wine makers to get started. This wine requires a few wine...

Learn to leave the grape juice in a place with good ventillation in this free diy wine making video from our winery and sommelier expert.

Learn how to separate the sediment from the grape juice in this free diy wine making video from our winery and sommelier expert.

Learn not crush the grape bunches in this free diy wine making video from our winery and sommelier expert.

Learn the grape varieties that are the basis of the famous Hungarian wine in this free diy wine making video from our winery and sommelier expert.

Learn how to Reduce the yield for quality's sake by cutting off unnecessary bunches in this free diy wine making video from our winery and sommelier expert.

This is another recipe from my grandma. When she died I was the one who inherited her collection. I have really enjoyed looking through her recipes and hope you enjoy them too.

Wine lovers may dream of having a winery, but it's one thing to dream about it and quite another to actually make it happen. The reality is that opening a winery involves hard work and knowledge...