WINEWORKS
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Loads of apples - You need a fruit press to turn them into juice. With a small semi commercial fruit press you can make your own cider or wine or use the press to simply make fresh apple juice.

For years those apples have fallen off the trees and now the fruit press will turn them into something useful. The fruit press can also press other fruits.

• The fruit press will eat raspberries.
• It will flatten strawberries.
• A press will destroy cherries (no stones left in).
• Watch the fruit press work its way through loganberries.

The fruit press is made from a cask steel frame which is the main mechanics of the press and makes sure it will crush the fruit using the centre spindle for leverage against the fruit. The press has wooden blocks going horizontally up the fruit press. These can be easily removed from the press to clean or revamps but this is not normally necessary. The fruit press comes from Italy although they are also made in many of the old Eastern block countries with strong traditions of using fruit presses. Hungary for example is a fruit press producer. Romania has also produced a similar press over the years although I don't know if they still do.

The average price is £100. The prices do however become more expensive as they get bigger in size which is to be expected. The most expensive press we have seen is over £1100 - but it's big. You will need a forklift truck to unload this.

The small fruit press is quite good value and you would expect to buy this press for around £50 although these are not wonderfully robust. Decide what size of press you want and then look through all the presses in our catalogue, along with other products for making wine.

Some people think a fruit press is different from a wine press but this is not the case. However there are more people who look for fruit press than do for wine press so you can see why it confuses so many people who want to make their own wine.

Wine can contain any fruit and the fresher the fruit the better will be the taste so get the fruit press going as soon as the fruit is ripe and then make the wine as soon as you can or it might be you want to make some cider.