What a family holiday or a meal with close friends to do without wine? But the most prized wine made at home from grapes. Each winemaker amateur himself tried to prepare the drink. Today we consider the step by step how to create wine at home with detailed instructions and photos, it will not cause difficulty even for a beginner.
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Selection of grapes for wine
Grape nectar is prepared at home and in the winery, to be delicious and fragrant, and then to create it, you need to choose the right kind of berries. The fruits of different varieties of wine and a bunch of small size, usually densely dotted. Here are some relevant advice from competent winegrowers regarding the selection of raw materials for the production of fruit and nectar:
- give preference only ripe product, as unripe fruit will give a bitter taste to the finished drink and perespevshy will remind vinegar;
- grapes must be dried before squeezing. If the vines are exposed to rain prior to shearing, dry them;
- in any case, do not use the fruits fallen to the ground, otherwise you risk to spoil the taste of the future of nectar;
- plucked fruit optimally put into processing immediately or within 2 days from the date of their separation from the branches, or the fermentation process to begin even before the press.
For your information! It is not recommended to wash selected for the preparation of fruits, because you needed to wash away the yeast process, which are whitish plaque. You can rinse them, but only if it is to create a drink will apply a special wine yeast.
Removed from the plant fruits need to separate from the branches, removing all the stalk and inappropriate berries that have begun to deteriorate from rot or mold, are cracked or dark spots. Selected grapes pour into the vessel, preferably deep and squeezed. suitable potato masher, grinder, or special news for this process. Knead the mass must be very careful to get all the juice.
A step by step process of creating nectar
Preparation of a good wine is not a complicated process, the most important to follow the instructions given in the recipe. Next, your attention is presented in detail the creation of wine.
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Selected fruits separated from the twigs and dried by, put in a clean container prepared and where they are otpressovku. The filter cake is transferred to another container, together with the strained juice, in such a way that the container is filled to 2/3.
Next reservoir mass is transferred to a room with the temperature level in the range 18 - + 23ᵒS. Such a framework is needed to control the fermentation, because the slightest deviation from the climate regime in a big way can lead to the fact that the contents will be vinegar. Alternatively, if the temperature is lower than required, the process may not occur at all or will be slow.
After the start of the product fermentation, it is necessary to separate the cake from the liquid, which can be called young wine. The contents very carefully stir required twice a day. To all the berries received oxygen and gave a taste evenly. Otherwise there is the risk of product damage in the early stages.
Preparation of grape must
After 5-7 days steeping grape mass to be straining cake in several stages. First passes through a colander, the second time should be carried out through several layers of gauze fabric. Squeezed juice is left to ferment for some time, but first it needs to be poured into another container, filling it ¾ full with water seal and close the lid.
Information! Some experienced winegrowers do not recommend to separate the cake from the wort, citing the fact that this future nectar ready to lose the exquisite flavor and its special aftertaste.
If desired, the mass can not percolate, and merge together in another tank, fix the top with a cover tube to restrict oxygen access to content, it is necessary to lower free edge of the tube in a container with water, while the other will be in wine.
At this stage of preparation you need to monitor the level of the fortress and the amount of sugar, it depends, again of the fruit varieties. If necessary, top up sugar to your taste. In our country, mainly cultivated varieties with a small amount of fructose, and if you do not add sweetener, then you get a dry wine drink.
The amount of sugar is usually taken at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 1 liter of wine is almost ready. Dosypanie occurs as follows: a small amount merges wort is heated and then pour it into sugar, stirring until complete dissolution. Then, all poured back into the container and mix again.
Blockage of the semifinished wine
This stage involves the cleansing of the finished cake from the nectar and sediment that it is necessary to carry out through the tube to decant the liquid. Check again to taste and sugar. This is the last chance to fill up the right amount of sugar in the wine, then you need to stir. If you prefer a beverage powder, the addition of a sweetener is needed.
Pour the contents into a container made of dark glass, tightly not clog you need to stay in the beverage carbon dioxide is released completely.
Types of sterilization of the finished product
This is the final stage of preparation and not less than the required, the process to be carried out by all the rules. Not all Vinarov believe this step is a necessary condition, according to them, created the nectar must be placed for up to 3 months in a dark and cool place for fermentation is complete. But you need to pre-set hydraulic locks on the tanks. During this time, you need to regularly remove the wine from the sediment.
You can make and forced sterilization, it is this: a bottle of wine is not fully closed and put in water tanks. In one or more bottles of drink, place special thermometers and derite them in such a state until the temperature reaches + 60ᵒS. This will mean that all the yeast is destroyed, and the fermentation has been completed. Carbon dioxide, if it remains, will also be released during this time.
Preparation is completed, the wine can be poured into bottles, cork tightly and place in a cool room with the air temperature. If you've followed the recipe exactly, you'll have a drink with a pleasant aroma and exquisite taste who appreciate all of your guests.
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