I intend to store my wine in the empty 64 oz bottles of juices that I buy to make my wine. They are sturdy food grade plastic with good screw on caps and if the wine is still fermenting they will bulge out rather than explode like a regular wine bottle could. I take blank stick on labels from an office supply store, write the ingredients used and the date started then stick it on the bottle. Perhaps some day I may get a kit and make something more exotic but for now it's all about cheap and easy.
What you get from the kit has some intangibles beyond high quality spirits at appx $3 per bottle with recycled bottles. I thought the guy who was serving it at his Christmas parties had his own vineyard until he turned me onto the store. Personalized labels that the store prints with your name on them turn three bucks into a very welcome hostess or Christmas gift that has a lot of cachet beyond your minimal cost especially for a business person. They really do think you own your own vineyard especially if you present them with 3 or 4 different varieties.
Cheap & Easy?
Hard cider.
Buy pasteurized apple juice - Wal Mart sells Musclemans (SP) for less than $5 per gallon. Unscrew the lid, pour out a cup, dump in a bit of your EC 1118, put the lid on loosely. Shake. I like this method because it is simple, safe, and fast. No need to keg or bottle, just pour carefully to leave the sludge behind. You can make it fizzy by carefully screwing on the lid before you fridge it & monitoring pressure by squeezing the bottle.
In scientific terms store bought Apple Juice has a Specific Gravity of 1.050. This will ferment to about 6% if you let it go all the way dry (you can stop it by putting it in the fridge).
If you want to make wine you need to learn a few things- grape juice has nutrients absent in apple juice, so in order to get a healthy yeast in apple juice include Nutrient (DAP) and energizer (cheap & readily available on e-bay or at your local brewing store). As you advance cleaning & sterilizing become vital if you are fermenting & storing outside of the original container.