Let’s make wine! Now that we’ve covered wine kits and what equipment required to make wine it’s time to hydrate the grape juice and pitch the yeast. In this video I’ll show you everything it takes to get your wine kit happily fermenting.
Equipment Required for Making Wine from a Kit
Once you’ve decided on what wine kit you’d like to make we now move onto what equipment you’ll need to get started. In this video I outline the minimum amount of equipment required to get going. You can always add more gadgets but this is an affordable place to start.
In summary, you’ll need: Continue reading “Equipment Required for Making Wine from a Kit”
Crushing and Destemming Grapes
As you well know, grape juice comes from grapes. Extracting that juice is therefore the very first step in making wine from fresh grapes.
Not to be confused with pressing grapes the crushing of grapes merely breaks open with skin allowing the “free run” juice to pour fourth. Pressing on the other hand is where you flatten the things to get out as much juice (or wine in the case of reds) as you can. Continue reading “Crushing and Destemming Grapes”