It is important to understand a little about wine and homemade wine making before you start your journey
. This will give you a little back ground and understanding before you start the process to make it a little easier for you. Today you can find wine making kits online or in a number of stores to make the process easier but you still want to understand a little more about the steps to get a better idea of what your are doing.
As you may know, grapes or any type of fruit is used to make wine. The ripeness of the fruit and the amount of sugar contributes to the level of alcohol produced in your batch of wine. The alcohol is produced during fermentation. Depending on how long the fermentation process lasts allows you to determine now much alcohol content your wine will have.
Yeast is an important part of the fermentation process. This begins to grow on the skin of the grapes as the grape juice is extracted as the grapes are crushed. This the beginning of the process of turning grapes into wine. Red wine gets it's color from the skin of the grapes because the actual grape juice is actually clear. Black grapes are usually used to make red wines and light colored grapes are used to make white wines.
Surfer dioxide is also used in the homemade wine making process. The amount used is very small. You need to understand that even with this your wine will still contain a small amount of sulfites.
When the outside of the grapes look dusty this is known as bloom. This is caused by the yeasts. The skin of grapes contain vinegar bacteria. This can cause wine to spoil when exposed to air. This will make the taste of your wine very unpleasant. This is why the natural yeasts in the grapes is not used very much and people buy other types of yeasts.
There are other steps an ingredients in homemade wine making. Above is just a little more knowledge for you to help better understand the process before starting to make your own wine. This will help you along the way to better understand each step as your doing it.