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Do you come from a long history of wine makers? Was your grandfather's homemade red the staple at Sunday family meals?

Or have you decided - like millions worldwide - that it would be lots of fun to give winemaking at home a try?

In either case, these links can help with the fun basics and also cover some of the more technical details you'll need to know ...

Home Winemaking - Featuring basic winemaking step by step in an illustrated guide plus a forum, technical FAQ and much more. Extremely thorough, and easy to follow for the home winemaking newbie.

Making Table Wine at Home - From the Department of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis with eight comprehensive chapters with instructions in downloadable PDF format.

Winemaker Magazine - The digital version of the print magazine with resources and supplier directory for the US and Canada, ingredients chart, yeasts chart, common grapes chart noting what kinds of wine they'll produce, plus feature stories, tips, projects and recipes.

The Winemaking Home Page - A giant vat of information for the beginner-to-advanced home wine enthusiast, starting with the basics and including recipes, glossary, FAQ, a wine label making how-to, home wine making resources and references.

The Wine Fly's Tech Tips - The wine fly knows quite a bit about the processes that occur to turn grapes into wine and what can go wrong. The tips on this page are in fairly simple language although they often cover some pretty complex information, with related links.

Alternative Beverage - Complete systems for making beer or wine from grapes and fruit in the U.S. available through the online store, with feature articles to help with the process and a toll-free 800 number for help.

also see in Wines -> Growing Grapes - A Vineyard of Your Own

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