Wine Art in France

As the festive season hits the corner, it is time to give all your loved ones a bottle of wine. But you need not buy wine from the market each time when you can easily make one at home. Here is how you can go about making your own wine at home.

Since most wines are made of fermented grapes, using grape for your homemade wine becomes inevitable. This is the most popular way of making your own wine at home. You would need at least weight to ten gallons of grapes to make your wine.

When buying grapes for wine, make sure that you go in for the ones that are sweeter and seedless. This is because these grapes are fairly easier to process than the ones that come with seeds.

No, start crushing the grapes to produce a fine must. To ensure that you come up with a must of the required consistency, crush the grapes in small batches instead of crushing all of them at one time. This will not just be easier but also provide better results as well.

Now take a cheesecloth and squeeze some grape must through the cheese cloth. This will help you extract fine grape juice. You would need about a cup of grape juice. Measure the gravity reading of this grape juice with the help of a hydrometer. The gravity reading should be less than 1.090. Now, cover this grape juice and set it aside.

The next step would be to add 5 campden tablets to the remaining must. These tablets destroy any bacteria that are present in the must and also prevent it from future contamination. To add campden tablets to the must, you need to dissolve them in water first. Use a wooden spoon for this purpose. When the tablets are completely dissolved, add it to the must.

After you have added campden tablets to the must, cover it and keep it aside for twelve hours. After twelve hours, you need to add four teaspoons of pectic enzyme to the must. Mix the pectic enzyme and again cover the must and keep it aside for twelve hours.

After the second twelve hours get over, you would be required to add wine yeast mixed with the grape juice that you had set aside earlier. Mix five milligrams of wine years with the grape juice and add it to the must 12 hours after adding pectic enzyme to the must. Keep the mixture covered for the whole day while stirring two to three times throughout the day.

Once the fermentation has been done, you could add granulated sugar to the entire mixture. You could add sugar depending upon the taste that you are looking for.

Gift your friends homemade wine and they are going to love you for the thoughtfulness that you have shown.