Home Producer December 2008

Thank you for the inspiration from the last person that said 'I'd love to make my own wine'
The short answer 'Do it' didn't seem to satisfy you.

And so to the Blog. We wanted to share the joy and how easy it is, but understanding that it helps to have someone to ask 'what if' and we have the luxury of being surrounded by winemakers. So this is our 'winemaker next door' and while we're at it have you made your own mustard, mayonnaise and bread? More later. For now this is a diary for the home winemaker.

In starting out to write ‘how to make your own wine at home’
I kept thinking ‘why would you?’
There are so many good affordable wines in South Australia, and Australia generally. For those of us with the good fortune to live in McLaren Vale it is literally over every back fence.
And making your own is time consuming, messy, and risky ... our own initial hesitation came from the possibility of producing undrinkable muck.

So why would you? Besides the obvious question - why not? There was a really good reason -
for the love of it.

A step by step guide to the process seems a bit like a dry argument, and the only rule of winemaking is that you should never be thirsty. So for today, contemplation and I'll get around to explanation. In the meantime open a bottle of someone else's good work. Cheers.