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Fellow blogger and commercial winemaker Michael shares with us his joy of making wine from fruit. Creativity (like with my novels) can ignite from anything, including sweet colorful berries…
How I Began Making My Own Fruit Wine by Michael Rennhofer
My elder cousin studied chemistry and told me how to do it. It was more an experiment than actual winemaking. We made elderberry wine. I was a teenager and experimented with fermentation. There is no more to say about that.
We had to pick numerous elderberries in early autumn and had to rub the small berries from the umbels. It was exhausting and lasted forever. In the end, we had a very small batch of elderberry juice. We fermented it in an open bucket covered only with a towel. Very country-style, but it worked! Very well.
We had to wait about three weeks and ended with a sweet berry wine. We used baker’s yeast and not wine yeast so…
