Wine kits are a great place to start when learning to make wine. They’re inexpensive, pre-stabilized, and come with a great set of instructions to help you through the process. You also need only a minimal amount of equipment.
At some point though we all want to graduate kit wine making to making wine from fresh grapes.
There are a few things that differ between the two methods of making wine. The most obvious is the equipment required to process the fruit. You’ll likely need a crusher / destemmer as well as a grape press, all of which are used to extract the juice from the fruit.
The other differences are on a deeper level and this is where I’d like to dive in and explore what the big differences are. Continue reading “Making Wine from Grapes vs Kits”