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Wine could be made at home, but it's not as easy as one thinks. The best way to make your own wine is to purchase a wine kit at a local wine shop, and for best results, let it ferment there for 6 weeks or so (they have ideal conditions for that). It's not impossible to make wine at home. You will need a cool wine celar, place to store bottles horizonatally, a corking device, a bottle washer, wine testing kit, and, of course, Grape Juice. Then you will need to read a manual you get with the grape juice you buy from a winery, and follow it to a 'T'. This is a complicated process that does not guarantee that you will end up with the wine you will be able to drink... I'm not even talking about offering it to others. I think, it's easier to make moonshine than wine, if you want to experiment :-)

Technically, making wine can be very simple and involves few steps:

1. Sprinkle yeast into a juice that contains sugar.

2. Allow the yeast to begin converting the sugar into alcohol and carbon-dioxide.

You have just made wine.

To make good wine that you would want to consume, there are more steps to take, including measuring the sugar content of the juice, adding more if there is not enough to reach the desired finished alcohol level, allowing the yeast to do a "primary fermentation," and then racking the wine to a secondary fermenter after about a week to ten days.

After that, a winemaker will usually add clarifying agents and preservatives over a period of time. Depending on what the winemaker hopes for, there may be other steps as well.

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