Cuttings are best for grape vines. Are you doing cuttings or seeds? Whichever tho would be awesome!!
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They pop up on their own, new vines, but they hate being moved, and cuttings also rarely work, I shall save you some seeds instead, if they grow they like where they are, if they do not they do not. And running a distillery this year, just bought one for the fun of it, why not.
Ha brilliant, yeh I'd love to make my own wine. My dad used to make beer. On my organic course they said best to use cuttings for vines but you have to use the right bits. I can work from seeds tho, all good. Always wanted grapes but wasn't sure if they'd grow here so if they're that hardy it'll be amazing. I have a perfect sheltered bit for them.
Wine is sooooooooooo easy to make - you can even use normal bread yeast to do it (not brewers).
I've made loads here (with varying reuslts - but all of them get you drunk!)
Seeing as I'm now a boring teetotaler, I kinda stopped - but it really is that easy to make from any fruits (my tomato wine was like a very half decent white wine!)
You can find instructions online easily - but it's so easy - I can give 'em you here.
1/chop up your fuits and stick 'em in a container - a bucket is ideal, covered tightly with cloth.
2/add 3 teaspoons of yeast, and sugar - lots of sugar. 1kg of fruit, 1kg of sugar (you can adjust as you make batches, to suit your own palette)
3/Cover, and keep warm (and for the first week, stir it a couple of times a day )
4/ Let it do its thing for a month or so.
5/ When the tiny bubbles stop coming to the surface, put into a bottle with an air trap (piece of piss to make)
6/ leave it for while until ALL the bubbles stop.
7/siphon off the wine from the sediment.
8/ Get drunk (with a banging hangover if you drink straight away - 2 months in a bottle , sealed, is better)
This will yield you relatively low alcohol content wine, any time you like (I estimated it was around 5 - 8% alcohol - but I keep my wines dry - throw in lots of sugar, it can increase the % content)
I have 2 gallons of top quality vinegar from my fuck ups ( and another 2 gallons of tomato vinegar brewing, as I type).
Don't be scared - jump right in - it really is that simple.
For cider I use the skin of apples for yeast, oh naturale. It works better than yeast, figure that 1 out.
Just give them room to grow upwards, in Spain they are having frost and it is killing their vines, mine is much more hardy indeed, plant it and forget about it :-)