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

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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 ...

On a recent Sunday, longtime East Bay friends Gordon Mauger and Chris Maxwell spent the afternoon hunkered down in Maxwell’s cramped Lafayette garage — a DIY crushpad — disgorging bottles of their ...