Can making your own wine add to the experience of enjoying a good bottle of wine?

I believe it does. Now I can really appreciate the time and effort that goes into a wine. Participants will discover how important it is to know where the grapes are sourced from. They will also learn how the pressing and crushing of grapes affects the final quality of the wine and they will learn much more. Don’t just read about it in a book, actually make wine with professional guidance.

It’s also a great way to spend your leisure time working for a few hours a month at a winery. We’ve personally experienced making wine at two educational winemaking facilities.

Tin Lizzie Wineworks is located in Clarksville, Maryland. This is a low-key operation that allows participants a lot of fun and camaraderie while making the wine. You will learn about wine and winemaking from a let the grapes speak for themselves viewpoint. Dave Zuchero and Rob Pearre are great to work with.

In Virginia, at Vint Hill Craft Winery participants have the opportunity to work in a state of the art winery. This winery is one of the few wineries in Virginia that has two sorting tables.  Here the emphasis is on sourcing quality grapes and using chemical analysis. The winemakers at Vint Hill are also friendly and easy to work with. During our winemaking experience we usually worked with DJ Leffin, an enthusiastic winemaker.

Check out both Tin Lizzie Wineworks and Vint Hill Craft Winery for an opportunity to produce wine from the 2010 vintage.

Cheers! Kathy