Edible grape?

I think it is unlikely Heron - but checking it says the skins are tannic so you might do okay. How did you actually make the wine?

We picked a large basin full and after removing leave and 'some' snails, I fed the lot through a juice extractor which left us with just juice. It made a bit of a mess but not as much as if we'd used our feet ! I do hope the wine will be alright to drink, the vine is afterall an ornimental variety.

I suppose it will not be red wine but 'purpurea' wine!

Tell me you left the juice to sit on the skins for a while - it needs to for red wine. What are you using for yeast?

We followed the recipe from a wine book, we didn't leave the juice to sit on the skins, the yeast is from Wilkinsons.

you will make wine, wether it is palatable depends on you and your taste buds. after all you can make wine from all sorts, dandelion flowers, carton of fresh orange juice and rhubarb. my gran used to make wine from these and my memory of the rhubarb wine was it tasted like the sterilising fluid but by heck it got you tiddley pdq. :o) hic!

It's our first attempt at it this year so I'm hoping it will be a case of 'beginners luck' we've also made Pear, Damson and Elderberry.

remember the good life and the pea pod burgundy? :o)

If the elderberry is anything like what we used to make it will be fantastic.....but don't be tempted to drink it to young....we made that mistake..... and the last bottle was superb.........

pssst.......don't tell anyone else, but let me know when its ready..and we'll come and help you drink it.......lol

Oh my god SBG - do I ever remember the pea pod burgundy... We used to make homemade wine and one year bottled before it had finished fermenting - the noise and the mess were something else.

I'd probably pass on your grape wine Heron but pass the elderberry - after it has sat for at least a year...

You 'can' make wine from lots of things whether it will taste good is another matter. Berry fruits tend to be good plus rhubarb. Have to say though we stopped making years ago.

Oh yes I remember a good rhubarb wine we made once.....trouble is it takes such a long time to reach decent drinkable quality...:))))

Yup you have to be patient with home made wines.

We syphoned it into bottles yesterday. There was a few bottles that were not full so we drank it. It really was delicious.

:-)