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James Follent shares his journey from curiosity to creating a garage winery, detailing his experiences and challenges in winemaking.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of The Wined Up Podcast, we sit down with amateur winemaker James Follent to unpack what really happens when curiosity turns into a full-blown garage winery obsession. What started with buying wine for Qantas points somehow turned into hand-picking grapes, experimenting with sparkling Chardonnay, making raspberry mead, joining the Sydney Amateur Winemakers Club, and producing nearly 300 bottles of wine at home. Along the way, James shares the chaos, mistakes, ...

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Guest: James Follent

Topics covered

• winemaking
• amateur wine
• garage winery
• hobbies
• food culture

Keywords

• winemaking
• garage winery
• Chardonnay
• raspberry mead
• Qantas points

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Organizations: Sydney Amateur Winemakers Club, Qantas

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