Thread: Home made wine

I live in Denpasar, and have made wine for over 20 years. At the moment, I have in process mango, rosella, beet and ginger, etc. I have two friends who are learning the tehcniques from me right now. If you give me your email address I'll be happy to share my experience with you.

I suggest that the next Bali Pod get together should be at Fitri's house.

Originally Posted by Fitri

I live in Denpasar, and have made wine for over 20 years. At the moment, I have in process mango, rosella, beet and ginger, etc. I have two friends who are learning the tehcniques from me right now. If you give me your email address I'll be happy to share my experience with you.

Hi Fitri, can you please tell me where you get your stuff from, like yeast etc. I tried twice te Hatten-wine made here in Bali but even for cooking it is too bad. I am spoiled I suppose after living for 8 years in Southern Spain.
Thanks
Dick

I'm fortunate enough to have friends who travel to and from Australia. My yeast and a few of the other bits and pieces are brought in from there for me.

My latest experiment is to make it from Frangipani flowers. Dunno about the taste yet, but it smells good!

Hi, Dick. In my opinion, the "best" of the local wines is Artisan. Note, I didn't say it's good..........
And, no.idea, I'm between finished product right now. Give me a few months and why not? If you don't mind experimenting a little. The alcohol
content ranges from 13 - 16%. I think I'll stick to around 13.0 - 14.0% for all future concoctions. Drink the other stuff and driving isn't a good
option!

Hi, Zoyra. Sorry about the delay in answering you - I've only today come across the discussion about home made wine. When I start a wine for the first time (like Frangipani recently) I use a 5 lt plastic container, such as vegetable cooking oil comes in - that gives about 6.5 wine bottles worth of finished product. When I've decided to make a wine again I use a plastic 20 lts demi-jon container - that makes about 26 bottles worth. Don't use a 20 lts Aqua jar as the ridges on the sides will have sediment settle there from your wine, and then it's the very devil to clean. Use straight-sided vessels. Bottling is a long way off, so don't worry about that yet, but I agree that eventually you should use screw topped bottles. I offered the local scavenger (one with a push cart) a few rupiah and a week later had lots of bottles! I recommend starting your first wine with the 5 lt plastic containers BUT never, never use one that contained soap or detergent - the smell will permeate your wine.
I'm rattling on like an old fart....hey, just remembered - I AM an old fart!