Preparation of grape wine at home - it's easy, and Isabella and other varieties of fragrant grapes are best suited to stock up on a drink.
Advice
Of course, much depends on the variety of grapes and its suitability for winemaking, but before choosing raw materials, take care of the attendant things.
First, you need utensils for fermentation. This should be a container of material that is not oxidized: glass, wood or stainless metals.
Second - clearly withstand the time, otherwise the drink will acquire unnecessary properties, having absorbed tannins from bones and twigs.
Third - if you want to get a tasty wine, do not experiment with varieties, sugar and water. It's simple: a minimum of water, a clear adherence to the norm of sugar and the use of grapes of one grade is the basis of the ideal drink. Aromatic wines are obtained from such varieties as Lydia, Pearl, Muscat, well, and of course, unrestricted grape wine from Isabella.
Stage One
To make homemade grape wine from Isabella, choose ripe grapes collected on sunny slopes. There should not be moldy berries, but a little dried out, slightly wrinkled can be left - they are especially sweet.
Ingredients:
- grapes (brushes without leaves and other debris) - 10 kg;
- white purified domestic sugar - 1 kg;
- water purified (bottled or filtered) - 5 liters.
Preparation
The production of Isabella grape wine is carried out in several stages. First we will prepare the grapes. In any case, do not wash it, except that it is rinsed, if dirt has got on the brush during collection. We crush the grapes (you can first remove the berries from the crests, but you can not do this), using any convenient device. If you press grapes with your hands, do not forget about gloves, because the juice of berries is a magnificent dye. Put the pressed berries in a suitable container. It can be a large glass bottle (not less than 25 liters), a wooden barrel or plastic (which is less desirable) utensils.
Sugar is dissolved in water and poured into the same container. Cover the container with a film - there must be a flow of air to start fermentation, and leave for 3 days. Do not miss this time, it is important to remove the must (fermented juice) in time from the remnants of berries, if you do not want to experience a headache.
Stage Two
At the second stage we will need utensils with a narrow throat (glass bottle) or hermetically sealed with an attached tap (special barrel).
Ingredients:
- must from grapes - 10 l;
- sand white refined sugar produced in the CIS countries - 2 kg;
- water bottled or well - 2 liters.
Preparation
To prepare a grape wine with your own hands from Isabella, it will take time, quickly quality drink can not be done. So, when the three days of fermentation of the first stage are over, you must carefully decant the wort in such a way that the bones, skins of berries and combs (if berries are not removed from the twigs) do not get into the wine. To do this, use a gauze filter, and to wring out the remains of the wort - press. We pour the must into a suitable container. It should have enough room for fermentation, otherwise the dishes can break, so choose a container in which the wort will occupy no more than 2/3 of the volume. Sugar is dissolved in water and mixed with a wort.
Many are interested in the question of how to prepare a sweet grape wine from Isabella - but fortified wine from this sort of grapes is usually not cooked. If you are still a lover of sweet drinks, increase the amount of sugar to 3 kg, but not more.
So, the billet in the dishes, we put the water shutter to drain the gases. The first time the process will go very actively, then slow down. This is normal, do not worry, but make sure that the wine does not freeze, otherwise fermentation will stop. Grape wine "Isabella" at home should throw out not less than 40 days, that is we wait a month and a half, and then we pass to the third stage.
Stage Three
At this stage, the wine is ready and it needs to be drained with yeast. Carefully do this with a tube or a hose, decant the drink and pour it into bottles. Densely corked and stored in the basement or pantry, using as needed. Thus, any grape wine is prepared at home, wine recipes from Isabella grapes do not differ from others, except that the amount of sugar can be slightly changed if the grapes have not ripened to real sweetness.