Anybody here making their own wine?

[jmowreader]

8. This is my family's legendary Dago Red recipe

Making this got Granny Pucci thrown in jail three times during Prohibition, so you know it's good.

This makes a year's worth of wine but you'll see how to scale it back.

First get your equipment: a washboard, an old whiskey barrel and lots of gallon jugs - two jugs per gallon of wine.

Next get your supplies: Zinfandel grapes, sugar, raisins and water. It is a 1:1:1:1 ratio: a pound of raisins, pound of sugar and gallon of water for each box of grapes. Uncle Geno used 25 boxes of grapes.

If you have a basement this is where you do this.

Next, make the first run: Rub the grapes against the washboard to break the skins, throw them in the barrel, put the lid on and go away for three days. Then start tasting it. When it tastes like wine put it in jugs. Do NOT give it another day to get better unless you need lots of vinegar.

Now make the second run: Chop up the raisins. Put raisins, sugar and water in the barrel, let ferment three days and start tasting.