Make Wine at Home and Save Money
Enjoy easy, low budget wine in a choice of flavors without added sulfites.
With fruit juice from the store, sugar, yeast, and some patience, you can make wine for less money than buying cheap wine by the bottle. You can use any juice available, like grape, apple, cranberry, cherry, or juice blends from your supermarket or discount grocery. I usually use 2 half gallon bottles of juice from ALDI that cost $2.49 each, which puts my juice cost per gallon at $4.98.
Get 1 Gallon of Juice
Any juice will work as long as it does not contain preservatives because they will interfere with the fermenting yeast. The presence of ascorbic acid is not a problem.
I prefer to use unsweetened juices and add sugar. Finding juice products that don’t contain added sweeteners or preservatives is not difficult. Using bottled juices made from concentrate is perfectly acceptable as well. Those are usually the cheap ones anyway but feel free to select more expensive pure juices or organic juice if you prefer. If you want to use frozen juice concentrates, be sure to use distilled water or well water because chlorinated municipal tap water will interfere with yeast activity.