Why I Chose This: I've made wine from many different fruits and even commercial wine kits. But I've never done the crushing and pressing that real grape wine making entails.
What I Did: I had about three pounds of green Thompson table grapes from the market. Rather than letting them go to waste (they were pretty sour) I sliced them up and crushed them (to get out the juice) and made wine. At first I didn't think this was going to be too good... too little sugar in the grapes.
But thinking ahead I added some sugar in the primary fermentation. That was smart on my part because the finished wine was pretty dry- even with all the added sugar... however it was pretty strong- about 12% alcohol. I think I'll try it again next fall.
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