You once dreamt of moving to Cali, growing your leg hair, and making biodynamic wine by the light of the moon. (It was a nightmare, obv.)
Try a WASPier brand of wine making at Boston Winery. Operated by Venezia Restaurant’s Bruno family, the Port Norfolk winery lets you make your own vintage from grape to glass.
After choosing a preferred varietal, customers learn the ins and outs of vino synthesis. Over four separate visits, you’ll de-stem and crush the fruit, barrel your brew for fermentation, and bottle and cork your concoction before affixing your own handmade label.
Patience is a virtue (the process takes about a year), but come judgment day, your cask will spew forth 288 bottles.
And satisfy all of your grape expectations.
Boston Winery, 26 Ericsson Street, Port Norfolk, Dorchester (617-265-9463 or bostonwinery.net).