If you want to ease in to wine making, another option is to try out a homemade recipe that doesn't require special equipment or excessive ingredients, such as Dandelion Wine.
The Martian Chronicles is really a series of related short stories, and his gorgeous Dandelion Wine is assembled from segments that had been originally published as short stories.
Also in the fifties, Bradbury published Dandelion Wine (1957), a novel that is neither science fiction, fantasy nor mystery, but simply a strangely beautiful remembrance of life in a small Illinois town.
