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Originally Posted by clickity click
Ok, so I drink a bottle a night on average and my wife drinks a bottle every couple of nights on average.
So thats's 365 for me and 183 for her which gives 548 bottles.
Now sometimes we have friends over so I guess that could be rounded up to 600 or even 700 bottles of 70cl.
According to this Google Search Google it would take 600 - 800 grapes to make a bottle so lets take an average of 700.
700 grapes * by 650 bottles means I need about 455,000 grapes.
Tesco sell them in punnets for £2 which contain about 45 grapes so based on that I would spend over £20,000. This obviously isn't economically viable.
So how many grapes are on an average grape tree.. Would 455,000 grapes be on a single tree and could I harvest them and save a fortune? |
Having worked 10+ years as a cellar rat at a winery I can tell you
A- grapes grow on vines not trees. Takes 5-10 years for a vine to start producing grapes for wine.
B- 455,000 grapes.... you're looking at acres of vines. You can get about 20 cases (240 bottles) of wine per acre is all goes well. From mature vines.
C- Tanks, barrels, bottles, filters, pumps, corks and other equipment are a major expense
D- you can go to a store and buy DYI wine kits including grape must, ready to create your own wine.
E- If you like good wine, forget all the above, buy wine at the store. Vineyards & wine production are a FUCKING LOT OF WORK. And usually produce crappy wine.
For every winery out there, maybe 1 out of 10 make drinkable wine.
For every guy making home made wine, maybe 1 out of 1000 makes wine that's OK to drink. I didn't say great wine.