Wine Making. Tips, equipment, recipes and supply ideas.

If its not moving, fermet it

Special Feature: The beginners guide to winemaking. Quick results with basic kit and simple method and cheap supplies - you'll be making wine at home in no time.

Historical Note: These pages were written over ten years ago when I was a student. The internet was a very different place in those days. The original site had some, urm, exciting colour schemes. The site has sat collecting dust on a friends webpage for many years. I personally stopped home winemaking years ago.. no time you see. However, I was still getting the occasional email referencing these pages, and the site was still getting a reasonable number of hits per day. Recently I have decided to dust it off, spruce it up a bit and generally make it something that won't cause eye damage to read. The content is the untouched original - it has stood the test of time, and it would be sacrilegious to change it after all these years. So - here it is, warts and all. Happy fermenting. Tom. Curdridge. Aug 2005.

Southampton is rife with people drooling over their bubbling buckets of wine. The list of converts grows steadily by the evil pressgang forces of Tom and Alec.

Join the fun and make a name in the art of winemaking.

This site has been set up for preaching our particular philosophy concerning the ancient art of winemaking. It is aimed generally at students or other similarly poor people, despite the bias towards Southampton, our ideas are applicable anywhere on the planet.

Special Feature: Our highly popular glossary of winemaking terms.

Our highly popular glossary of winemaking terms.

Also check out my other hobby on my mini-lathe site

Our thoughts and ideas divide up as follows.

• Philosophy. A little idealogical introduction to the art of making wine at home.
• Equipment. All the paraphernalia you will need. Avoid expensive kit an equipment.
• Ingredients. A selection of ideas for what you can make wine out of. You'd be amazed where you can find a supply of ingredients.
• Method. The actions and rituals whereby wine is produced. Our own technique and method for making wine.
• Wine Tasting. A few pointers on tasting wine.

Home wine making questions

If you get stuck with your home wine making, please feel free to ask a question and I will do my best to answer. See other questions. Feel free to offer feedback on this page using the same page.

The latest greatest section - The Art of Sake.

If the jargon gets too much for you, we give you :

• The Glossary

While we may claim to be the definitive guide to down-to-earth wine making, we are by no means the only approach that exists. Much has been written on the subject, both physically and virtually. Thus we provide a kind of bibliography.

• Links to other web-sites.
• Some books you could look for.
• To buy real wine you will have to learn to make money fast on the internet... or not, as the case is more likely to be.

Written by Tom How and Alec Harkness

Email wine@thewinepages.org.uk

Comments and suggestions welcome