At home, you can prepare alcoholic beverages, which will be no worse than purchased. In this article, we’ll talk about how to make chocolate wine at home.
The world of spirits
Alcoholic drinks were known already in ancient times. A few millennia ago, a man tasted wine, then beer appeared, and then people learned how to make and drink strong alcohol. Since its inception, alcohol accompanies a person. And the noisy fun of the holiday, and calm minutes of communication with your loved one are accompanied by the use of this drink.
Alcohol improves mood. It is also a good way to relax, to give relaxation to the body.
It should be remembered that the use of alcoholic beverages should not be excessive, and the products should be of high quality. It is worth choosing the right alcohol, then it will benefit: it will make the food more refined, and the process of eating will be enjoyable.
Different alcohol is customary to be served with different dishes, while desserts, appetizers, and hot ones will only benefit. Let's see how chocolate wine behaves in this regard.
Wines
On the shelves of wine shops you can find a wide variety of alcohol: liquor, vodka, wine, balm, tincture, beer ... All this has a variety of tastes, different strength and scope. What is wine?
It is a drink of the ancient gods, philosophers, poets and artists, kings and their subjects, rulers of the world and mortals. It is capable of reconciling, appeasing, and prompting one to think ... There are people who are indifferent to wine, but, perhaps, no one will refuse a glass of good burgundy.
Depending on how much alcohol and sugar is in the wine, they are all divided into the following types:
- Dining rooms, or dry (9-14% and 1%).
- Semi-sweet tablespoons (7-12% and 3-7%).
- Dessert sweet (strength depends on sugar: the more sugar, the less alcohol).
- Strong dessert (16-20% and 3-6%).
Homemade wines
All wines are characterized by four basic tastes - sour, bitter, salty, sweet. At home, you can make wine with any of these characteristics. The drink will turn out to be of high quality if you know the secrets of proper aging, different recipes.
A wine drink obtained at home with the right technology will be of high quality, but still it cannot replace a well-known brand. The taste and smell of fine wine connoisseurs recognized immediately.
What is chocolate wine at home, how is it made, what recipes for its preparation exist, we will consider further in this article.
Chocolate House Wine
This wine has a long history. England is considered his homeland. It was there at the beginning of the eighteenth century that they prepared such an alcoholic drink: they mixed red wine or port with sugar and chocolate.
Nowadays there is also chocolate wine in home winemaking: the recipe for its preparation is not much different from the production of a regular fruit and berry alcoholic beverage. It’s just that at some point, roasted and finely ground cocoa and sugar are added to the bottle. And when the wine is ready, it must be well filtered. The result is an inexpensive, but very tasty homemade chocolate wine.
Also, natural homemade wine can be enriched with a chocolate flavor, if the wort is insisted on pulp. There is tannin in this solid base of grape berries. They give the finished product a thick chocolate flavor. Among wines prepared industrially, wines such as cabernet and sauvignon have such a taste.
You can give a homemade wine a chocolate color if you insist it in a barrel subject to special firing. This wine has a delicate aroma of chocolate.
Recipes
To make chocolate wine at home, take a traditional recipe. You will need the following ingredients: Mas Amiel Maury wine (one bottle), Valrhona Tanariva chocolate (75 g), skim milk (175 ml). Wine and chocolate may be of other brands, but with similar tastes.
Cooking:
- we bring the wine to a boil in an enameled bowl, then we set it on fire so that the alcohol burns out;
- now boil over low heat to a volume of about 150 ml;
- Separately, bring the milk to a boil and pour heavily grated chocolate into it;
- combine both liquids and beat with a blender to get a lush mass.
Serve this chocolate wine immediately after preparation.
And here’s the recipe for chocolate liquor. We rub two hundred-gram bars of dark chocolate on a grater, put it in a saucepan, add one and a half liters of vodka, a pinch of vanillin. Mix well, close tightly and leave for one week, shaking occasionally. After a week, boil the syrup (300 ml of water, 2 cups of milk, 1 kg of sugar). Mix the cooled syrup with tincture, close tightly and leave in a warm place for two to three weeks. Then the filter is filtered and aged for another week, after which it is bottled. It can be stored for a year.
Chocolate wine can complement any dessert, its characteristic taste will cheer you up, and a small amount of alcohol will relax.