Growing Your Own Scratches is a blog dedicated to the trials and tribulations of starting your own wine making business. We have a passion for growing fennel seeds and producing quality wine from our home vineyard. This blog is run by a team of avid bloggers who provide valuable information on starting your own business, how to run it, and how to grow fennel seeds in your garden or backyard. Our blog features helpful tips and recommendations on everything related to starting up a successful wine business. We promote the use of fennel seeds in commercial wine production because they are one of the best-tasting seeds available.
We also love sharing our insights with other aspiring wine makers. We are pleased to welcome you to become part of our community. Please leave us any comments or questions below so that we can help you with any part of the process!
We have been making our own wine for years now. We make all sorts of little tweaks to our process to help it along and to get the best results we can. Our biggest tweak is ferments that I like to call “scratches”.
Scratches are basically your own yeast that you grow out in a secondary vessel. It takes a while but they are well worth the wait. You can use this scratch in multiple batches of wine and it will add body and fruitiness to your wines.
Tannin is another good byproduct of scratches. The scratch is extremely high in tannins, so much so that it will turn your mouths into little raspberries if you don’t take precautions not to overdo it! Although it is quite interesting to taste a bit of wine with only a drop or two of scratch added.
The other main reason we do this is because sometimes you can get stuck with a very low alcohol content wine due to a stuck fermentation or just an overall slow one. Scratches will bring the alcohol up to where you want it.
Scratches take about six months for a full batch and require very little work on your part other than opening the primary container every few weeks and stirring them up and keeping them topped
My first case of wine was a disaster. The wine was flat and the flavor was terrible. My second batch tasted better but I noticed that the corks were not tight enough, so when you open the bottle, it all gushed out. After looking for some information about starting a wine business online I found nothing but scam artist. So I started Drinking Vines to share what little I’ve learned after more than a decade of making wine.
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So here I am several years later and, while my wines are not award winning or even award worthy, they are drinkable, even enjoyable, and I have sold thousands of bottles to friends, family, and customers. It took time and lots of mistakes to get there. This blog is an attempt to shorten that learning curve for anyone else who wants to try their hand at this rewarding hobby.”
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Growing your own wine is an excellent way to cut costs and get a unique product. It also can be quite profitable; there are many people who make their living growing grapes, pressing them, and selling the resulting wine.
Trying your hand at home winemaking can be a fun hobby or it may be something you take more seriously and decide to pursue as a business endeavor. Wine making is not without its challenges, but if you are ready to work hard and follow the right steps, you will be able to create wine that is unique and delicious.
Read on for tips about growing your own grapes and making wine in your own kitchen.
Wine making is a business where you have to be your own boss. I am writing this blog for the first time so that I can communicate with you, and give you all the information about wine making.
By starting your wine making yourself, it will not only save money, but you will know exactly what goes into it and if something goes wrong, you can go back and fix it.
And if something does go wrong, I can help you correct it.
In case the wine business is not for you, I also have information on how to start your own landscaping business.
So check back often as I will update this blog frequently.
If you have any questions please feel free to email me: fennelseeds@gmail.com
Start small, think big. That’s the mantra that the commercial wine and spirits industry wants you to follow. They want you to start with a few hundred dollars and a quarter acre of land and dream of becoming a wealthy vintner. But this is not how they made their fortunes.
The small wineries that are owned by the people who make the wine did not start out with 20 acres of vines or even one vineyard. They started with a grapevine in a pot on their back porch, or they transplanted some cuttings from an old fence post, or they bought a couple of grapevines at their local nursery.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. You can grow your own business rather than buying one from someone else. You can start with a single vine in your backyard and end up owning hundreds or thousands of acres of land – without having to pass through the corporate grapevine.*
The seeds that you get from the grocery store are usually fennel seeds that were harvested before they were ripe, in order to preserve them for shipping. The best way to grow your own is to buy seeds from a reputable seed company.
Taste:Aromatic and sweet
