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While wine making is a long process it is a very enjoyable and delicious one that is well worth the effort if you’re willing to put in the time to make it. We’ll go through the process of a very easy way to make some wine that will be wonderful to drink and make you happy that you made the effort.

Choosing and Gather Your Fruit

Next you’re going to want to choose your fruit. By picking out delicious fruit you’re going to get a delicious wine. You’re going to want to pick something that is fruity and juicy but you’re going to want to make sure that it doesn’t have a lot of acid.

When it comes to fruits things; such as, plums and grapes make a good wine; however, things like bananas and apples will not since you will not get a good tasting wine. Please note that you’re going to have to remove the seeds so you shouldn’t pick something that is going to be difficult for you to remove the seeds from them. The one exception would be something like a mulberry or a raspberry as they are very small and insignificant seeds so you can simply just leave them in.

Now you should gather your fruit and note that however much fruit you have that’s about the amount of wine you’re going to end up with.

Mash the Fruit

Gather a large bowl and mash up your fruit. You should use a fork or another small utensil and do it until you’re not able to mash it any further. You should then transfer the pulp into either a glass jar or several jars. You’re going to need to get to it later so you won’t want to pick a jar with a small opening. A quart size jar would be a good size to use. Fill the jar until you have just about 2-3 inches left from the top.

Processing Your Wine

Cover up the jar using several layers of plastic wrap. You’re going to want to make sure it’s secured and air tight. You don’t want to use a lid, just the plastic wrap. You don’t want to use a lid as the pressure is likely to change as the pulp ferments.

Put the jars in the sun and let them sit there for a week without moving them. By the time a week is up there should then be a significant amount of mold on the top of the pulp. Then remove the plastic wrap and use a spoon to scrape off the entire amount of mold. You need to get it all even though you’re likely to have to sacrifice some of the pulp to do this.

At this point you’re going to have fermented pulp that is beginning to smell like alcohol. You should measure the amount of pulp that you have and add distilled water using a ratio of 2 parts water to every 1 part pulp and then stir it up. It’s important that you do use distilled water.

Now you’ll want to strain your mix into another glass using a cheese cloth. After everything has filtered through you’ll want to squeeze the cloth in order to get any extra juice out of it. Just throw away the dried pulp as it’s no longer needed.

Putting the liquid juice into the jar you’re going to want to add 5 tablespoons sugar to ever 1 quart liquid. Stir it together. The natural chemical process will turn the added sugars into alcohol. Your wine is now read to ferment further. You should now cover your jar with the plastic wrap again or if you wish you can put it into a wine bottle with a cork.

The Next Two Months

You’ll now want to let the wine set into a dark and cool place and leave it there for about 3 weeks. You’ll then want to filter it through a coffee filter. You should rinse the jar with hot water before returning it into the jar. You should taste a small amount of your wine at this time.

You should be aware that it’s not going to taste that great right now since it’s so fresh; however, you are going to want to be aware of how sweet it is. You can add more sugar at this point if you should so desire and then return it back to its dark and cool place. You should do this every 3 weeks for 2 months time and after that leave it in the place for 3 months undisturbed.

The Next Five Months and Beyond

Once the wine is 5 months old you’ll want to filter it again through the coffee filter like the last time as well as rinsing out the jar. Your wine is ready to drink at this point if you’d like to. You also can choose to let it set longer and let it age. Every time you get it you should filter it out until the wine has aged for a year.