Homemade Wine From Garden Grapes to Bottle

Homemade Wine: From Garden Grapes to Bottle Every year we make wine. And every year it is completely different. Not because we change the recipe. Because the wine decides for itself. Different friends show up. Different grapes arrive. Different varieties, different gardens, different seasons behind them. Everything goes into one fermenter and what comes out two to three years later is something we could never plan and will never be able to reproduce. This is not a winemaking tutorial. It is a tradition. Once a year we invite friends who have garden grapes to bring whatever they harvested. Every bucket goes in together. We desteem, stomp, and ferment the whole mixed lot on skins using Fermentis wine yeast, no additives, no Campden tablets, nothing to sanitise or standardise what nature already decided. While the wine ferments in balloon bottles you will sometimes see pellicles forming on the surface, a natural sign of wild microorganisms at work. We leave them. The wine knows what it is doing. After pressing we rack, wait, rack again, and eventually bottle. Each friend gets their share back based on what they originally brought. Three years after that first harvest day. We use an old full size wine press for this. It takes a community harvest to justify it. In this video: [00:00] Introduction [01:20] Destemming and Crushing the Grapes [09:03] Pressing the Fermented Grapes [13:52] Racking Last Years Wine [21:36] Bottling Wine from Two Years Ago What we used: Fermentis wine yeast — [link] Old traditional wine press Balloon fermentation bottles You might also like: 👉    • From Mozzarella to Burrata   How to Create...   About Past Forward: Ben and Lisa test traditional skills, old recipes, and forgotten household knowledge in a modern New Zealand home. We dig up what older generations knew, bring it back to life, and find out whether it still holds up. New video every Saturday morning local New Zealand time. ‪@PastForwardNZ‬ 🔔 Subscribe:    / @pastforwardnz   📩 [email protected] #HomemadeWine #WineMaking #PastForward TAGS: homemade wine, wine making at home, garden grapes wine, how to make wine, grape fermentation, home winemaking, wine from scratch, bottling wine, racking wine, wine yeast, community winemaking, mixed grape wine, backyard grapes, traditional winemaking, wine barrel, grape stomping, homemade wine process, fermentation at home, past forward, wine from vine to bottle, annual wine making