An Accessible Recipe To Make Quality Wine
If you have grapes growing in your back yard, you can actually consider having the basic ingredient for making yourself the good, quality wine that everyone enjoys. The most appropriate kind of grapes used for making wine are the ones known by the name of vinifera grapes. It is very important to take into consideration the quality of the grapes to be used before starting to make any wine out of them. These grapes are known to grow most in areas with a cool climate as they need this type of climate in order to grow best. They are popular for the productions of cabernet, merlot and even chardonnay.
All the kits and ingredients you need in order to make some quality wine at home are listed below and allow you to form an opinion regarding the basic features of home-made wine.
First of all, you will need two plastic bottles each of 5 gallons, a meter of tube also made of plastic (the tube must have the inside diameter of 1/4 inch), about 13 glass bottles, half tablespoon of yeast and last but not least about 3 pounds of sugar and 1/4 clean water. After getting all these ingredients, you need to carefully follow the instructions of the recipe as the ingredients must be used as the instructions advise.
Before starting out, you have to make sure that all the dishes that the wine will take contact with are sanitized and absolutely clean. This helps obtain a clean and impurity-free wine. You must also make sure to have your hands and gloves disinfected and sanitized.
As a first step, you have to mix clean water with all the sugar, and stir the mixture while warming it until the sugar will dissolve. After it gets cool at a normal room temperature, you must add the yeast and stir again. Then the grape juice must be poured into a bottle in which you add the mixture of yeast and the water with sugar. After that, you must place a sandwich bag on top of the bottle containing the final mixture and “seal” it with a rubber band. By follwing all these steps, your wine should begin the fermenting process in maximum two days. Fermentation has started if you see rubber bubbles on the top of the mixture.
The bubbles are the very key that indicates whether the mixture has fermented enough or not. After the complete disappearance of the bubbles, that is in about two or three weeks time, you can be sure that the wine has completed the period of fermenting.
This is the stage in which the rubber tube comes into action as you must use it in order to transfer the wine inside another bottle. However, you need to be very careful not to place the tube too deep inside the first bottle as it may remove the yeast and this may lead to making the wine have a cloudy consistency.
