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Making wine at home has long been popular, with origins in the United States going back to the 19th century. Wine lovers who immigrated from Europe brought with them a knowledge of making wine, and often did so for personal consumption. There still exists a common misconception that making wine at home is illegal. It's not, as long as you don't sell the wine you make at home.

In a way, wine making is like gardening. There's a real sense of accomplishment from producing a consumable product entirely on your own. However, as you might imagine, wine making is slightly more complicated than growing a tomato plant. You'll need special equipment, which used to be sizeable and bulky many years ago. With the advent of wine making kits though, just about anyone can try their hand at making wine at home if they so desire.

Making your first batch of wine is possible in your own home with a wine making starter kit. These kits generally cost $125 to $200 and include everything you need as a fledgling winemaker. You'll receive supplies, gadgets, ingredients, and sealable containers to hold the wine while it ferments.

In a wine starter kit, included are a couple of air sealable jugs to store the wine, ingredients, corks, and specialty wine making tools. And of course, complete detailed instructions. From opening the box to drinking the wine, the whole process takes about a month. Your ingredients will vary depending upon what kind of wine you choose to make.

The Wine Making Process And The Taste

With the detailed step by step instructions, the wine making process wasn't difficult, but it is a bit stop and go. After the first step, which is mixing ingredients, there's a 24 hour waiting period so the ingredients can settle. Then, another cleansing process at the 6 day mark, followed by a 4 to 6 week wait while the mixture ferments into wine.

Our first batch was what we'd call a simple red table wine. The taste? Drinkable and palatable, but certainly not worthy of any wine competition medals. Nor did we serve it to our friends. However, like any skill, we improved with practice.

The next batch yielded better results. We produced an apricot wine, using a recipe modeled after a wine we'd enjoyed on one of our U.S. wine trails travels. We were brave enough to share some of this wine with friends and family, and were pleasantly surprised that it received positive reviews (and requests for a 2nd glass).

Since our batch of apricot wine, we've experimented with other fruit wines, which are fun to produce because there's a bit more room to tweak the recipes. By no means would we consider our wine kit wines medal worthy, but they're fun to make and are a great topic of conversation!

If you have a little patience and enjoy growing things or producing something all your own, consider wine making. We never thought of ourselves as ever being wine makers, but it's been fun and a great topic of conversation. You'll need a willingness to experiment, and a sense of humor for when one of your batches inevitably flops. But, you'll experience a real sense of pride when someone pays compliments to the winemaker!

About the Author

Jim Hofman is an author and owner of several wine related websites, and a beginning wine maker. For more wine insight, you're cordially invited to visit Jim's resource site dedicated to wine, wine accessories, and Wine Making Kits. Cheers!

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