Wine made from grapes is the oldest and noblest drink. Properly prepared and used in certain doses, it performs healing functions, heals our body, rejuvenates, fills with strength and energy, removes free radicals and toxins. Wine helps with bronchitis and pneumonia, tuberculosis and many other serious ailments. Therefore, it is not just possible to drink, but it is necessary - this is the conclusion of the doctors.
Homemade wine
Naturally, it's easier than ever to go to the store and buy a attracted bottle of red, pink or white. However, the best is a drink made by yourself. So we will tell you how to make
wine from grapes. How does the process begin, what stages does it go through? Which varieties are better to use for the production of the drink? What to do, what containers to take for fermentation, and how to store the finished product? In a word, you will learn in sufficient detail how to make
wine from grapes at home. The main thing is to follow the recommendations exactly, and everything will turn out fine!
Pick grapes
Just note: there are no special restrictions in the selection of varieties of berries for the production of a drink. This means that what kind of vine is growing in you, from this one and harvest it. But if you follow the advice of professionals on how to make wine from grapes, then juice from Isabella, Kapshun, Muscat, Lydia, Aligote, Buzoyka, Moldova and other southern varieties is better. The main thing is that the grapes are well ripened, ripe and sweet. Bunches should be collected until frost and rain so that they are dry, and the berries do not accumulate excess moisture and do not lose sweetness. In addition, wasps and birds can spoil them. Here are some simple initial recommendations on how to make wine from grapes!
Recipe number 1 (for a small amount of grapes)
There are several technologies for making a drink. Much depends on the amount of raw material and its variety. Typically,
homemade grape wine recipes are recommended to be made with an additional sugar supplement and ferment from natural yeast. The process should begin with the preparation of grapes. Sort the brushes carefully, remove debris, leaves, remove spoiled elements, etc.
Ideally, all berries are best picked from bunches. But, of course, this process is laborious and painstaking. Especially if you have more than a dozen kilograms of grapes. If you use a special crush press, pass the selected berries through it. Or chop with a mashed potato pusher. And you can use the famous method of the hero of the movie "The Taming of the Shrew" with Celentano in the title role and crush it with your feet, and to the music.
When the berries are mashed, you can start making homemade wine from grapes. Recipes are advised to shift the mass into glass or enameled dishes and heat to 60 degrees (use a thermometer to prevent overheating, otherwise the taste of wine will be different). Then let the mashed potatoes cool, squeeze thoroughly through cheesecloth to get pure juice. If it seems sour, pour in sugar syrup (100 g sugar per half liter of water), mix and put in the leaven. How to make wine from grapes further: put a container of juice in a warm place so that the product fermentes for about 2 months. Try again, add sugar if necessary, stir to completely dissolve. Pour gently so that the sediment remains at the bottom, the finished wine in bottles, store it in a cool place. How to make wine from grapes according to the second recipe - read on.
Homemade grape wine - recipe number 2
Sort the harvest, separate the berries from the branches. Fold them in a deep bowl. With a wooden or porcelain pestle, crush the fruits into a homogeneous mass. Bones can not be chosen. How to make wine from grapes based on berry puree: sprinkle it with sugar and put in a dark and cool place for a week for fermentation. Cover the container with a linen rag. After the specified time, strain the wine through several layers of cheesecloth, pack in bottles and store in the cellar. Serve it with meat dishes. According to this recipe, it is good to make homemade wine from dark grapes.
Along the way, take note of another tip. In the room intended for the production of wine, there should be no caustic, extraneous odors: they are actively absorbed by the future drink. In general, the ideal containers for making and storing wine are oak barrels, enameled pots and buckets, glass bottles.
Sharing secrets
The first secret: why does wine from grapes (cooking at home) turn out to be more delicious if the berries are separated from the branches? Firstly, in this way you can carefully sort through the raw materials, remove the covered with flowers, overripe, spoiled berries. So, you get a preliminary guarantee that the final product - a noble drink - also does not deteriorate.
Secondly, if the berries are crushed together with branches, the wine will be bitter and overly tart. Those. far from the high quality you expect. Thirdly, how to make wine from grapes to make it excellent? Prepared berries should immediately be allowed to juice. After all, the fermentation process begins in the plucked fruits quickly enough. And it is impossible for him to find grapes whole. This should be done either by press or manually. You can use a juicer, but this is not the best option. For 4-5 days, let the juice stand in a warm place along with squeezes so that it "wins back", insists. Then filter, bottle and send for fermentation. On this the first stage of wine preparation ends.
So that the juice roams correctly
If you do not have oak barrels, you can wander the drink in 5-10 liter glass bottles. Fill them in about two-thirds. The vessels must always have free space for the emitted carbon dioxide. When the bottles are full, they must be tightly closed. And in order to avoid air ingress, fill the edges of the corks with sealing wax, cover with plasticine or dough. Just be sure to make holes in them and insert flexible tubes (for example, from droppers) through which gas will escape. Lower the free end of the tube into a bowl or cup of water. Another option, how to make simple wine from grapes - put
rubber gloves or regular balls on the neck of the bottle. Just remember to pierce them with a thick pin!
When juice turns into wine
The next - second - stage of transformation of grape juice into a drink of the gods - fermentation. It takes from one and a half to 2-3 months. Liquid containers should be placed in a cool place, such as a cellar. The temperature there should be no higher than 5 degrees. You should often watch how actively carbon dioxide comes out of the bottle. Wash the vessels where the tubes are lowered periodically, change the water. If the gas is weak, check the plugs for leaks. Otherwise, air will fall into the wine, and it will degenerate into vinegar. Usually in home winemaking, the production of a drink begins in late September - October. Therefore, it will be quite ready for the New Year celebrations!
The final stage
When the wine in the bottles stops playing, it looks clean and transparent, and the precipitate settles to the bottom, it can again be filtered, bottled in plastic bottles and drunk at the festive table. Its strength is about 5 degrees, in taste it corresponds to dry. However, if you like sweeter drinks, the resulting product should be "improved." To do this, pour all the wine or part (only without sediment) of the existing one into one container. Then add 150 g of sugar for each liter of liquid (less may be possible - it depends on your taste). Dissolve it completely, rinse well the bottles in which the wine used to be, and pour again, cork and leave to “finish the game”. The process will end in a month, when the bubbles on the walls of the cans cease to settle. The strength of the drink is 10-13 degrees. Bottle, store in a cool place and drink to health.