Try looking in to "U-Brew" type situations. There are places where you buy a kit (or bring your own) and they have all the equipment and house the area for fermentation. It's roughly around the same price for buying store bought wine but you'll have a lot of access to other people's knowledge to see if it's something you like.
If you like it, you can get significantly better (and more varied flavors) wine/beer for quite a lot cheaper. I'm down to about 25 cents per bottle of 7% beer that's really tasty.
If you hate it, you've only lost $150 or so, you have no equipment waste and you have some wine/beer that you can give away.
Give it a shot!
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