Niklas Rühl posted a picture in our Facebook Group of a negative developed in Wineol, an alternate devolper that is made out of Red Wine, Washing Soda and Vitamin C. The whole process and some really nice pictures can be seen on his website. The site is in German,so here is a google translation. I knew already that it is possible to mix up other developers which are based on Washing Soda and Vitamin C, but never really had the interest to try it. But as I did some enlargements recently, why don’t try it as a paper developer. That said I took the cheapest Red Wine I have and mixed up some developer. As I always use plenty of Vitamin C in my recipes, I used the following formula:
- 400ml Red Wine (just any Red Wine will do)
- 40g of Washing Soda
- 10g of Vitamin C
The results are interesting. And there is plenty of room for experimenting and improvement. Here you can see a side by side print of a negative-scan and the Wineol developed printed paper: 
As you can see, it gives a nice brownish, violet toning to the paper, my print is way overexposed, it almost looks like a duotone picture. When I have a bit more time, I will go back and try to properly expose this and see how it looks like then. I have recorded the whole process on video, so if you ever wondered, how my darkroom looks like, or in which direction I stir my developer, here you have 10 minutes with me in the maybe smallest Full-Equiped Darkroom you have ever seen.
If you happen to be on Facebook, make sure you join the Caffenol Facebook group, it’s a nice community with people from all over the World. And if you have other suggestions, advices, or experiments you want to share on caffenol.org, just give me a shout through the contact form or leave a comment here.
Really nice, you tried the paper developing with wineol and it looks encouraging. As i wrote on my blog and on http://kwerfeldein.de/2012/06/08/entwickeln-mit-wineol-optimale-bedingungen-viel-rotwein/ niklas used basically i did a a bit of research an tried diffrent kind of wines and films. As you can see there´s much potential to optimize recipes and diffrent kinds of developing.
It´s a challenge and it´s really funny, isn´t it?
Tobias,
yes it’s a lot of fun experimenting with this stuff. I really want to compare it with prints developed in caffenol and in Rollei RPR.
Hi there! Very amazing stuf… But the google-translation of my article is … let’s say – strange. If there are some more worldwide readers, I will try to translate it myself.
Many regards
Niklas
Great stuff! Love your darkroom
I’ll have to try this sometimes. And nice special effects when you show the last print near the end 
Have you tried developing film or paper with Vita Cola? Vita Cola has both caffeine and vitamin C, it might be worth a try.
I will try to get some and try it!
I would try it myself because it is my favourite cola, but it is very very expensive in Finland.
How much is ‘Very expensive?’
1L bottle for 3,5€
Hey,
where dit you get this “calculator scale” ?
lg
Buddy
Hi Buddy,
I got it from here:
http://www.porters.com/projection-print-calculator-scale-4×5.html
¿por qué se demora tanto en revelar la imagen con el vino?
Because there is not so much caffeic acid in Red wine, so development takes longer. (Question was: why does it take so long to reveal the image with the wine?)
what is washing soda, not a familiar term
really enjoyed watching this, and seeing the darkroom. I will try this for sure…….and drink the wine left over
Thank you, Dirk. I really enjoyed your video. I tried this this afternoon and got several nice prints. As with Caffenol I tend to use about 5-10% of depleted paper developer with slower papers. This seems to get things moving and overcomes the threshold of development.
Thanks again. I appreciate the time you took to make this video.