Mostly I brew beer but the girl I was seeing liked cider sooooooo.... It did turn out well and asctually gwts better with age.
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I have an really good dry plum wine bulk aging in a carboy right now!!
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I usaly make Grape wine. But last Summer I had to try some thing new, so I
picked up Blueberries at Costco and made 3 gallons of wine with that and let it go dry. It's almost a year old now and I didnt even taste it yet. I better go get to it :-) I hope its good. As I mentioned before I'm a member on the site www.winepress.us you have a lot of profestional and profestional home wine makers who make wine who are so glad they can help some else make wine. Just like this site with Cigars :-)
The there is a Guy Jack keller he is a wine judge in TX he makes wine from almost anything that grows.
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/


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I'm a member there too. Infact it was there that I caught the bug.
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Yep, I do agree with you on that, it is another hobby that can get really out of control.



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I've made a batch a year since '07 I think. Some Chilean grape, some California, some local Maryland grape. My best was a Maryland Traminette, a hybrid of Gewurtztraminer and Seyval- it grows on the east cost like a Seyval but has most of the flavor characteristics of the Gewurtz. I fermented dry and then sweetened it a touch with some juice I had set aside. Came out great. Much better than a commercial winery on the other end of the state that bought the same grapes from the same vineyard I did.

Before you ask, I just assumed it was dry because there wasn't nearly enough sugar in the wine to kill the yeast I used and the fermentation stopped on it's own (before I killed the bugs with sorbate). That's good enough for me :-)

I'm a member of winepress also, though I haven't been on in awhile. My family got bigger so my budget got smaller, I make beer now instead :-)
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