#1 Buy the juice. No one crushes grapes these days. Not even my girlfriends 100% Italian blooded family.

#2 If your looking to make a decent size batch. Get an empty Aluminum Beer Keg. rinse it thoroughly with a chemical sterilizing solution. Then rinse it some more. and fill it with the juice. Leave plenty of room Only fill it like 2/3 - 3/4 of the way otherwise it might overflow.

#3 Put the keg in a cool area. VERY important.

#4 pick up a funky looking contraption that will allow gasses to escape from the keg while the wine ferments. Stick that in the hole in the top of the keg.

#5 wait....

#6 Voilia. a beer keg of wine. Bottle in sterilized empty wine bottles. And consume.

I don't know much about the processes that actually happen to the wine as I was told by broken English Italians, but i know that you can do the above and you'll get something similar to wine. Provided the right yeast strain takes control in the fermenting process.

The less you ferment the sweeter the wine.

If you plan to make wine efficiently in big enough batches for home use a beer keg is a great way to do it.

My Girlfriends family has been doing it for quite some time. It must do the trick fairly well. Their wine is usually on the sweeter side. Its nice, goes well with the homemade tomato sauce and pasta.
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