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Making country wines using fresh fruit is the real way to make wine, I always feel as though I’m cheating using wine kits. Kits do make good wines but you can’t beat making wine from fresh fruit. There is a but, making wine from fresh fruit can be time consuming, waiting days to extract the juice from the fruit, mashing and straining in this age of technology there must be a quicker way.

Step in the latest craze, have you seen those late night informercials that go on forever, the ones I’m interested in are the ones for the latest fruit juice makers. Now there claims for giving you shiny hair and making you 4 pant sizes smaller is all well and good, but they do a great job of extracting the juice from that fresh fruit. Chop up the fruit, chuck it in the top, a roar and a splat later and out comes the juice, strain any lumps that have got through, pour the juice in the demijohn add your required sugar and water, sprinkle on your yeast and the job is done, country wine in half the time.

I tried my first experiment like this last night. I made some rhubarb wine and some pear wine. The juicer did an excellent job of reducing 4lb of pears into pear juice just right for winemaking. The only thing I found is you have to sterilse the juicer, but they come apart easily enough just drop them in a bowl of steriliser for a few minutes rinse them off and you are done, juice away.

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