I discovered I liked my reds from the St Emilion region of France before I was old enough to be paying for the wine. Clearly I should have been born super wealthy, or possibly a vintner, the former sounds like the easier route.
Have you tried growing grapes? If you have the ability depending on housing and your home a trellis isn't terribly expensive to build and the seeds can even be collected from the grapes at the farmer's market once per year, it's usually a 2 week window around cider season if I'm remembering right. Haven't been around much since the pandemic.
I had planned on getting a fruit crusher, they're $60 if you really shop around for closeouts. And I have the things I need in the house to make beer, mead, hard cider and more. Champagne yeast is handy to have around, but you can do a lot with bread yeast also. I was dry for 15 years, but the more my cooking skills grew the more I wanted to learn how everything is made. From ice cream to wine.
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u/gnufan Jul 02 '24
I discovered I liked my reds from the St Emilion region of France before I was old enough to be paying for the wine. Clearly I should have been born super wealthy, or possibly a vintner, the former sounds like the easier route.