Wine making

I saw the wine thread but nothing on making your own wine.

Me and my partner thought we'd have a crack at this year. She has done it before so knows what she's doing, I think. Me, I've got no clue. I'm more of a beer man normally, not really a fan of white wine but like full bodied reds. We have a load of demijohns so are good to go.

I got cut to shreds at the weekend picking 6 lbs of blackberries which I've mushed into liquid and put in the fridge for the first batch. Yesterday I secured a load of golden plums that another friend has an abundance of from her tree, so thats another one. We also plan to make some ginger wine.

I've heard damson wine is pretty good but don't know anyone with a damson tree (hint: I'll give you a free bottle if you've got some you're not using-disclaimer no promises on quality this is amateur hour).

I like the idea of blackcurrent but 6 lbs of them is going to cost muchos pounds and as I'm skint I'm trying to do it all on the cheap. I also want to play about and mix some fruits together to get some different blends (get me with my wine jargon poncery) but this will be a real (un)lucky dip.

So has anyone done this? Any tips or recommendations? Any good blends/recipes gratefully received. And if anyone else does it, fancy some LFGSS homebrew wine swapsies?

there is a home brew or homebrewing thread

ahh cheers my search fu is weak, will check it out, hoping its wine and beer....await mergatron....

http://www.lfgss.com/thread10210.html

thanks DIcki, better start reading.