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How To Make Wine
By Lakshmi Ramchander
Learning how to make wine can be quite an easy process to learn. During the conversion of sugar in fruit into carbon dioxide and alcohol, using yeast, the CO2 escapes into the air leaving wine behind. The idea is to make perfect conditions for the yeast to ferment the fruit and let nature take its course to make your wine. The easiest way how to make and prepare wine is to buy grape juice, do not open its seal, and leave it at a temperature ranging between 20°C and 30°C for about two months. This process becomes faster, when the temperature is warmer. Open the bottle of wine after two months without shaking the contents in the bottle. If the juice in the bottle is still murky leave the sediment behind and transfer the upper contents into coke bottles (preferably 2 liters) or air tight containers and leave for yet another three months before bottling.
Alternative method of how you can make wine is as following; take about 25-30 pounds of fruit de-seed the fruit and remove the stems. Crush the de-seeded fruit using a blender or a potato masher. Transfer this mash into a container of 25 liter capacity. Make clear sugar syrup with 10 pounds of sugar, and mix into the mashed fruit. Fill up the remaining part of the container with water and mix the contents thoroughly. Use wine yeast to get the first crack at fermentation. Once every week stir up the contents in the container with a stick. Once the bubble formation slows down, sieve the solution, using sieve or rags. Squeeze out the juice completely out of the pulp and then dispose the pulp. The murky liquid thus obtained will not be clear yet, so allow it to stand until it settles down eventually. Now transfer this murky liquid into another container and add water until the container is filled to the capacity, close the lid on it tight enough. The bubbles being formed over the surface of the solution will keep the bacteria away. Keep a plastic sheet with pinholes, wrapped over the container. Let this stand for a month without disturbance. Keep in a dark and warm place. After a period of one month, siphon off the upper part of the solution, the wine, into another container without disturbing the sediment at the bottom.
At this point of preparation the wine can either be consumed as it is or it can be further processed for increasing the wine’s potency. If you wish to store it, transfer into large containers and store for about three months or so. The taste of the wine gathers more potency as the age of the wine is increased. The wine thus prepared is now ready to either bottle for further increasing the potency or to drink. The major reason for home-made wine to go bad is the basic necessity of having a clean environment in the entire process of preparing the wine. All equipment, handling the wine making process, inclusive of the hands, you use need to be sanitized.
To know when the wine is ready depends on how well you wish to have it fermented. Generally it is ready when you wish to drink it. However there is no appropriate answer. The fermentation time could be around few months to a few years.
See Also:
More information on how to prepare wine can be obtained from books on wine making process.
Wine making at home
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