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So you’re thinking about making your own wine but don’t know where to start? Wondering just how complicated it can be? I was at that point once as well, until I received a Father’s Day gift of a wine making starter kit. I was delighted to learn just how uncomplicated home wine making can be.…

In the previous article, Getting Started, we discussed what you should get in a good basic wine making starting kit. Today, we’ll take a look at the process of wine making using concentrated grape juice purchased from a wine making outlet. Tonight, I started a Grand Cru Liebraumilch that I purchased from Winemakers here in Orangeville. The staff…

If you’ve been following along here, you’ll recall that we began with “Getting Started – Part 1” where we discussed the basic components of what you should look for in a home winemaking starter kit. Then in “Getting Started – Part 2” we looked at how simple it was to being the winemaking process. The…

If you’ve been following along, this is week #2 of our 4 week home winemaking kit. For those who have reached this article without having read the first few, links to the earlier articles are at the bottom of this one. Last week, we racked the wine from the primary fermenter into the secondary carboy.…

Items Needed: 1. 30 sanitized bottles. 2. Syphon tube. 3. Sanitizing solution. 4. 30 corks 5. Bottle corker (Often, the store where you purchased your kit will lend or rent a corker to you. You may want to consider purchasing a hand corker if you are going to make wine at home on a regular…