Making Wine

One of the late fall / early winter tasks is making wine.  All those beautiful fruits that I popped into the freezer in the heat of the summer need to make room for the fall meat.  Some years I focus on jams, but since we had used up all our wine (most goes to hostess gifts), I pulled out the fruit, weighed it, calculated batches, and got cheese cloth and buckets ready. 


 
Here is the first fermentation in buckets.




Then the wine siphoned into glass carboys or jugs for the second fermentation.

Soon I will need to keep siphoning periodically to separate wine from yeast residue.



And then in a few weeks or months I will bottle it up