THIS year’s cherry harvest was nasty, brutish and short -- born in gloom, beset by trials and only now at the end seeing some glimmer of sunshine. But fear not: There is a second season just around ...

Drink: For a fresh, fruity aperitif, opt for homemade sangria! Replace the red wine with rosé for a lighter, more original ...

Finally, the wine you made last summer is still. There hasn’t been a bubble in the bung for weeks, so fermentation is complete. It is time to bottle. And then bottle some more. It was a great fruit ...

Learn how to make your own fruit wine at home — easy, traditional, and perfect for beginners. No vineyard required!

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Homemade wine with love. That’s all John Casella is looking to make inside his young winery that is nestled on a quiet part of the countryside in a former one-room schoolhouse. After retiring from 30 ...

Edward and Sandra Carney agree that it’s all in a name. Deliberating about a name for their new farm winery, the Abingdon couple was returning home from a family visit in West Virginia when Carney ...

Cubans have found a homemade solution to making wine without high-tech fermentation tools: They use condoms. Homemade wine is an affordable spirit for Cubans, where a bottle of imported wine in ...

Do you recall whose influence was instrumental in your becoming a wine lover? For me it was my grandfather, an Italian immigrant whose stubborn, unrelenting determination set me on the path to become ...