Welcome to Natural Winemaking.  Anine and Allison are dedicated to making delicious, sulfite-free wines, naturally and with as little fuss as possible. You can also make your own wine. We can show you how easy it is. In fact, the most difficult part of wine making is waiting for the wine to be ready to drink!

Making wine is another way of preserving the harvest and enjoying the abundance of our Earth. You can make wine from almost anything: fruits, edible flowers, vegetables, herbs, wild foods, and grains... The possibilities are nearly endless. We are currently having fun experimenting! Crimson clover wine, white clover blossom wine, lavender blossom wine, lemon balm wine, beet wine with its bright fuchsia color, and a variety of banana wines to name a few. Anine even made a wine from the plethora of huge zucchini from her organic garden. Yes, we've been busy.

A couple of years ago, Anine was offered 45 pounds of ripe bananas for $5. Couldn't pass that up! She made four types of banana wine, including banana spice - yum! It was a full-bodied wine with just a hint of banana, but spiced with clove, cinnamon and allspice, plus a few other spices. She made two identical batches of dry ginger wine. The recipes were identical except she used white grape concentrate in one batch and unsulphured golden raisins in the other. Both wines are wonderfully light and refreshing. The last banana wine tastes more like a light dry sherry. This one is still developing. Banana makes a good base for giving body to a thin wine. Adding banana to a recipe may require a little longer to complete the fermentation.

Allison has developed a recipe for a light lavender wine made from her mom's lavender blossoms. She also perfected our recipe for rose petal wine, featured in our book.

Natural Winemaking at Home
Without Sulfites or Toxic Chemicals