Hello everybody! Havent posted in a while, but i am BACK!
Today im going to show you the process on how we make our own wine! This year, unfortunately, due to the weather and a wierd year for anything growing. We didnt get as much wine as we normally do. We grow our own grapes and have a few apple trees kicking around the country yard! We live in a zone 3 for gardening, which kinda sucks for growing fun things, but we still manage to grow grapes and are succesful in making our own juice and wine.
Like i mentioned we didnt get a lot of wine to make this year, normally we get about 5 -8 gallons... but this year we only got 1 gallon of wine and 1 gallon of juice.
1st off, we obviously picked the apples. Doesnt matter if they're bruised because they get mushed up anyways, me and baby heidi picked as many apples as we could !
This is the contraption that made our lives EXTREMELY easier! In the past we didnt have anything huge or industrial because we only got wine for us and our family and friends. We actually used to put the grapes inbetween 2 huge soup pots and push down to squeeze the juice out, it took us about 8 hours , 1 entire season of gossip girl & a lot of vodka! Let me tell you, not fun. With this contraption we scored off of kijiji takes about 30 min to 1 hour! LOL now to some of you it might look "mickey mouse" but with the ammount of fruit we produce and make wine with, its perfect for us for now!
Next you throw the whole apples into the big opening and it grinds up the fruit into pieces as shown in the next picture. So easy peasy lemon squeezy !
When the pieces are all broken up, you just turn the crank, and it squeezes them down and the juice comes out!!! NOTHING ELSE ADDED! PURE APPLE AND GRAPE JUICE! It tastes so so so good and pure. No added sugar no nothin!
Of course the next step to making the wine is just throwing in the yeast and waiting 4 months LOL ill do a taste test video at that time with 
... and as always, baby heidi seems to have loved the whole process as well ;)
XOXO,MM
