How to Study Winemaking
Wine is a popular drink enjoyed with many meals and desserts. Wine can be bought from retailers and wineries, but with the right knowledge and supplies, anyone can learn how to produce a variety of wines. Winemaking, however, is not a process that a person can learn in a day. Those who are serious about winemaking should consider options for learning and developing winemaking skills to produce a good wine from home. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- List of local wineries
- Course catalog from local colleges
- Books on winemaking
- Winemaking kit
- Ingredient kit
Instructions
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Study Winemaking With Experts
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Visit a winery that offers tours to learn about winemaking. Tours give a quick overview of the process and information about common ingredients in wine.
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Check community colleges and universities with extension programs. Many programs offer beginning winemaking courses or a full course in wine that includes classes on winemaking.
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Read books on winemaking, which can supplement what you learn in class and present detailed information on topics such as distilling processes and setting up equipment.
Practice Winemaking Skills
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Purchase a home winemaking kit, which will include all of the equipment needed to make wine, such as a fermenting bucket, siphon unit and a sanitizer to keep the equipment clean between batches. Kits can be purchased from a wine specialist or online.
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Purchase an ingredient kit for wine, available through a wine specialist or online. The ingredient kit will include the yeast, additives and specific fruit base for one batch of the type of wine being made. Kits can be purchased according to the oak, sweetness and body of the finished product.
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Purchase wine bottles. It takes about one month of fermentation before the wine can be transferred to a bottle. The wine is ready to drink after an additional month in the bottle.
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Tips & Warnings
Use a wine recipe book to learn about different types of wine and how they are made.
Anyone attending a winemaking class must be 21 years of age or older.
