Eating local doesn’t get much better than sipping a glass of your own homemade wine. If you patiently waited 12 months for your homemade wine to ferment, now it’s time to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Take your excess wine and make these recipes you can enjoy while sipping a glass.

• Homemade-wine Sangria
• Homemade-wine Vinaigrette
  
• Coq Au Vin (Chicken in Wine)

For more information on home winemaking, read Eve Adamson’s article “Put a Cork in It” in the Summer 2010 issue of Urban Farm.