I started making wine from age 10 years unfortunately faced
many problems such as oxidation also in my country they leave the
pulp up to 50 days in the containers (cause strengthen taste)....
but now because of your valuable information of your
website I enhanced the ways.......
First I collect ripen fruits of both red and white grapes
clean them and destemming the mix the ratio that I want of
black grapes(30%)+70% white grapes to reach the desired color... I
can measure by refractometer the brix...
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West Sacramento Calif. 10 Members making 100 gallons red each year.
We buy our juice fresh from local wineries, barrel, ferment, rack
and bottle.
Name: Dennis Freitas
State: California
I have 7 riesling vines that are 6 years old and another 32 that
are 4 years old. From this I was only able to produce 3 gallons of
juice and wine. I have placed 3rd place each of the last 3 years in
the Puyallup, WA fair competition in dry whites. I know I am bias,
but I do have reasonable taste buds and I know what a good riesling
is supposed to taste like. Thus, I think my wine is very good and
my son who is a card carrying wine expert and educator says I am
doing very well and my wine is...
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Hi,
Not much to tell we get the juice or get fruit from local friends.
I get it cleaned up and get it in the bucket and let it ferment for
a couple of weeks and get it in a primary fermenter and let it go
for a month and rack it off and let it go again for another couple
of months and taste and bottle. I have got 4 awards for my wine. I
have entered 5 wines and got awards.
Thks
Jerry
Name: Jerry Renaud
State: Pennsalvania
I make my wine the old fashion way, by the grapes localy then
crush, and press. Let the juice to ferment in the open barrel. When
the fermentation is finished I will transfer the juice to the fifty
gallon Barrel and close for about two month.
And I love my wine. This is my story, Excuse my poor english.
Name: Giuseppe D'Angelo
State: NY
I began wine making at the age of 16. A quart of grape juice in the
fridge was found to have started fermenting, and I became quite
obsessed with the process. My grandfather subsequently got me
hooked when he shared an age old elderblossom recipe and older lady
he knew shared with him. We would gather blossoms and make the wine
together. Another favorite was mulberry, which we gathered in
Newark, OH, in the alley behind his home. I have records of my
winemaking back to 1978, including receipts...
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I make my wine at our summer place on the manistee river, kind
of hard to get a pic of my outfit here in michigan the snow is
about this deep and i won't get in there till somtime in march
so I took a pic of our wine cellar there is dandlion, rhubarb,
strawberry, blackcap, rashberry, elderberry, blackberry, and wild
grape. I have a 6 gal. crock and a 10 gal. most of the time I
need to use a elec heating pad because it's only warm enough in
July and Aug.
Name: dick mckinley
State: mi.
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Enjoy making seasonal fruit wines, along with many of the foreign
red concentrates. I focus on the availability of friends'
home-grown freebies, namely pears, apples, plums, and grapes.
Specialize in various combinations of blendings of these fruits, as
well as wines from the individual fruits. Have experimented with
onion, potato, carrots, corn, coffee, and chocolate raspberry.
Surprisingly, with pleasant results.
Name: Louis Savka
State: Indiana
I started 5 years ago with a single gallon of grape wine and have
evolved into making 12 different kinds of fruit wine both semi
sweet and sweet plus a after dinner wine. I do not drink i make it
to give to my friends and at a wine tasting party we have each year
it is the finest hobby i enjoy the most. ps im 73 years old
Name: Rex Houseman
State: MI
I made 14 gallons of cider wine which I gave out as Christmas gifts
to many people.
Sometimes I add a bit of mint spirits to make a Cider wine with a
hint of mint, which turns out to be quite good.
Name: Steve Armenta
State: New Mexico
My father started making wine back in the 1960’s. He had a very
basic set up - I remember a dozen or more gallon jugs each with
it’s own air lock - a Styrofoam cup taped to the side of each jug
with a tube coming out the top of each jug. Some of his wines
weren’t so great but some were very good. I helped him from time to
time but mostly it was just him, however I always helped drink the
wines!
He passed away in 1979 and his equipment and wines were passed on
to me. For a number of years all I...
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Well, We have 5 Vines, 2 Muscadine and 3 Scuppernong, 5 Pear Trees.
This was my first year of wine making. Check out my page on
Facebook ... It keeps Family and Friends up to date on my wine
making... its new.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raleigh-Vineyards/296244417079615
What makes you/your setup unique?
When my Son Joined the USMC, I turned his Bedroom into the Wine
making room. When he comes home, he wants to sleep in there so he
can smell the wine... I make him sleep in the guest room.
We...
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This is my first attempt in wine making. As you can see there is
nothing elaborate about how I have my wine process set up. But you
know I found out a long time ago fancy doesn’t always mean the
best. Proud, yes I am proud to say for a 61 year old man I have
finally got around to trying this something I have wanted to do for
years. So this is my story just wanted to share it with you.
Name: Paul Barber
State: Tennessee
Make rose petal, honey suckle wine, persimmon wine. Everyone loves
my fuel. Enjoy the fermentation process. During last storm all the
wine started really poppn, fizzn. The barometric pressure
Name: Robert Raab
State: Illinois
I do not have pictures of my wine. It is nothing but simple gallon
jugs with air locks. What is unique is that I am a 79 year old lady
growing my own muscadines on 1 acre. I have grown them from seeds
and propagated with limbs in a flower pot. I have also been using
my land to grow blue berries, black berries, pears and everything
edible including asparagus. I built a solar bath house, a solar
greenhouse and want to be self sufficient and healthy. I drink 1/2
glass of wine per day for health. If...
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In 2010 I bought 5 gallons of chardonnay juice. After the primary
fermentation I racked it into a carboy and waited for it to clear.
After 3 months and two racks the wine still was not clearing. So I
then added some quick clear and it did help but it was still foggy.
I was getting a little woried so I ran it through a filter. I
called a friend of mine who owns a winery an he told me too just
wait. After 5 months I filtered and bottled it and won a gold medal
at the Ky St fair.
Name: Art Willman
Sta...
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I started 16 years ago with 1 fermenter in a bathtub, making a
couple batches of beer a year. In 2009, our family went to Austria,
to meet my cousins for the first time, who own a commercial winery
there. Once meeting them, they convinced me to carry on the family
business here in the states, so I got serious about my habit, and
it became more of an obsession. I have since turned my closet into
a temperature-controlled fermenting space, and have maxed out my
fermenting capacity & always have...
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I live near a discount grocery store. Not long ago they got in more
strawberries than they could sell. I was offered a few flats at a
discounted price. After discarding the bad ones, I made my first
STRAWBERRY wine. I know the wine maker in a winery, so when I made
the wine and bottled it, I carred him a bottle to critique for me.
He said it was of top class in taste and quality. I lucked out with
throwaway fruit. D.C.
Name: F.D.C.
State: Georgia
Our family has been making home wine in one way or another for 50
years. Since retiring in 2000, we've had the pleasure of growing
grapes and making wine on our 10 acre spread here in the Finger
Lakes, including a few medals along the way. I was disabled from a
stroke on Fathers Day in June of 2000, working in the gardens and
making wine has kept me active. I was a web development engineer
for Kodak before the stroke. I registered a domain & put up a
site, just in case our son ever wanted to...
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I built my own wine press.
I grow muscadine grapes.
I find peach wine the least expensive and less work.
I find ways to process mango wine when the fruit is free to
me.
Name: Charles C. Applegate
State: Florida
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