Yes, I get it was quite normal to make orange wine, but in my imagination it tastes like thinned-down boozy marmalade!
Theres an excellent book by Maggie Lane called something like Jane Austen and Food. She’s very interesting on how food, food gifts, meal etiquette etc all function symbolically in the novels, but also on food and alcohol in the Austen household till 1801 when Mr Austen retired to Bath. They were pretty much self-sufficient. They rented a 200- acre farm from the local landowner, raised and slaughtered their own pigs and sheep, grew wheat, oats, barley, hops, peas and cattle and horse winter fodder, selling the surplus, kept a dairy herd for milk, butter and cheese, kept chicken, ducks and turkeys for eggs and meat, had a garden where they grew vegetables, herbs and fruit, kept bees and used the honey in home-brewed mead, made beer and ale. The sons also brought home fish and shot game for the table. They sold their surplus, or preserved what they could.
Literally all they bought in was sugar, tea, coffee, chocolate, citrus fruit, spices and dried fruit.
They had servants, but no housekeeper, and this was very much Mrs Austen and her daughters’ domain. Being a ‘housewife’ then was a serious skill set!