Wine from blue grapes at home. Making grape wine

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Connoisseurs rightly call this drink "the nectar of the Gods." It is impossible not to fall in love with its heady aroma, rich flavor bouquet and delicious aftertaste from the first sip! Of course, we are talking about wine.

Delicate table, sweet nutmeg, intoxicating fortified and even homemade blue grape wine is always and everywhere considered the most popular drink. Not a single feast, whether it's a romantic dinner or a chic wedding, is complete without this delicious alcoholic product.

We invite you to plunge into the world of wine, and at the same time learn how to make wine from blue grapes at home.

Secret and blessed

The history of wine is shrouded in unsolved mysteries. No one knows for sure where the first wine was made and how long ago it happened. Heated debate continues around this topic to this day.

Scientists say that already many thousands of years before our era, our distant ancestors drank grape juice fermented in the sun.

Theologians assure that the first wine was made from the grapes that the Lord gave to Noah. There are many references to this drink in the Bible. According to Scripture, JesusChrist loved wine, so the Christian ban on drinking alcoholic beverages does not apply to wine. Priests use the famous church wine "Cahors" for communion, weddings and baptisms and claim that it is for good.

Be that as it may, wine is loved and drunk in all ages. Even during the adoption of Prohibition in the era of the USSR, craftsmen made grape wine with their own hands and used it both for their home holidays and for underground sales.

Impressive variety

Production of grape wine is a very profitable business. Wine is perhaps the only alcoholic beverage available in a wide variety of flavors and recipes. Its taste varies depending on the grape variety, aging method, and how much sugar manufacturers have added to the grape wine. Even the material from which the grape juice fermentation tank is made affects the aroma and taste.

Curious facts about wine

True connoisseurs and collectors of wine can tell stories about this drink for hours with maniacal enthusiasm. There is even the science of oenology, which studies this product.

Wine by strength can be: dry, semi-dry, semi-sweet, dessert, liqueur, fortified. By taste, it can be: table, vintage, collection. The color of wine also pleases with variety and can be: white, amber, rose, red, ruby and even black.

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Homemade winemaking

In order to taste delicious wine, it is not at all necessary to run to the supermarket and study bottle labels for hours - you can make grape wine with your own hands, taking into account individual taste preferences.

Don't be afraid to try yourself as a winemaker! Making grape wine is not too difficult and exciting process, which has a great chance of becoming a hobby.

The first thing to do is to make a list of the required ingredients and tools. The second stage is to decide what kind of drink you want to get. Beginners are advised to start making wine from blue grapes - at home this is the most successful option.

All About Blue Wine Grapes

The most simple, but nevertheless amazingly tasty and fragrant wine is made from blue grapes. At home, it is most often prepared due to the availability and cheapness of this variety of berries.

The best varieties of such grapes are considered "Livadian black" and "dove". These are unpretentious, low-maintenance species that can be found in almost every summer cottage. Wine grapes ripen in early autumn, and then the fences of neighboring household plots and stalls in the markets are simply bursting with the abundance of these berries.

Blue grapes contain a huge amount of vitamins and other usefulsubstances. Each berry contains 50-80% of juice saturated with pectin, natural sugar, vitamins A, C, E, PP, H, B, as well as macro- and microelements such as magnesium, calcium, sodium, potassium, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorus, iron, zinc, chromium, copper, manganese, iodine, molybdenum, fluorine, silicon, boron and others.

Interestingly, homemade blue grape wine does not detract from all its beneficial properties and can be not only an alcoholic drink, but also a vitamin cocktail to some extent.

Starting winemaking

Before you start making blue grape wine at home, you need to make sure that you have everything you need:

• blue grapes - 10 kg;
• granulated sugar - 3 kg;
• 30L stainless steel container;
• a pair of 20 l glass bottles;
• medical gloves;
• gauze;
• colander;
• tube 2 m long and 1 cm in diameter;

Stage one, preparatory

So, let's start making wine from blue grapes, the recipe for whichis described below and is divided into several stages for convenience.

1. The first step is to collect ripe grapes. You need to collect it directly with twigs, without tearing off the berries themselves. Then we separate them from the bunches and put them in a stainless container. It is impossible to wash the grapes, because it is in the skin of the berries that the substance due to which the fermentation process occurs.
2. After that, you need to crush the berries with your hands until a large amount of juice stands out. It is recommended that you wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water immediately.the juice can stain the skin and cause burning and itching.
3. Then carefully cover the container with the crushed berries with gauze and leave to ferment in a warm room for 5 days.

Stage two, the most important

After 5 days, if everything was done correctly, the pulp should rise in the container. This is what is left of the berries after squeezing the juice.

1. Everything needs to be strained through a colander, then the pulp should be folded onto cheesecloth and the remaining juice squeezed out of it.
2. Purified grape juice should be carefully poured into bottles and add equal portions of sugar. It is important to stir it very carefully.

Third stage, final

Be aware that sugar does not dissolve too quickly, so be patient.

1. After the sugar is completely dissolved in the juice, a medical glove must be pulled over the neck of the bottle. Each of her fingers should be pierced with a needle, and the glove itself should be firmly fixed to the bottle.
2. Then leave the wine in a warm room, it will ferment for 2-3 weeks. If the process goes right, the glove will inflate and remain in this state until the end of the fermentation stage, and the wine itself will gurgle. As soon as the glove deflates, the wine is ready for further action.



3. Next, you need to carefully strain the liquid into carefully washed bottles. It is very important that sediment does not get into them along with the wine. The best way to do this is withtubules.
4. After filtering, the bottles should be carefully corked with corks and taken out to a cool place. A month later, the wine is ready, and it can be put on the table for tasting, and then for all the festive feasts.

Most likely, guests will appreciate your homemade grape wine. How to make it and what is needed for this - they will be happy to tell the newly-made winemaker.

Variations on a theme of wine

In addition to the traditional method of preparation, there is a recipe for grape wine with water. It is slightly different from the usual, but the wine is no less tasty. To make such a drink, you need to calculate the measures of water and sugar in relation to grape juice. For 1 kg of berries you need 1.5 liters of water and 0.7 kg of sugar.

1. After squeezing the grapes into a mixture of juice and pulp, add the required amount of water and sugar and mix well.
2. Leave to ferment for a week, stirring every day 3-4 times to prevent mold.
3. Then the juice should be filtered and bottled. A medical glove with punctures on the fingers is put on the neck of the bottle, and then everything is the same as in the traditional recipe for making wine.

Secrets of home winemaking

In order for the wine to turn out the first time, the process does not become tedious, and the result does not bring disappointment, you should familiarize yourself with some secrets that will be very useful to a novice winemaker.

• Juice can be obtained not only by squeezing with hands, but also withjuicer.
• Instead of bottles, you can use ordinary three-liter jars.
• For lack of a medical glove, a condom will do.
• The sweetness and strength of the wine depends on the amount of sugar, so less sugar is needed for dry wine, and more for fortified wine.
• To keep wine longer, it is best to bottle it in glass bottles rather than plastic.
• The best place to store wine is a cellar or cellar.
• In order for the wine to be crystal clear, before bottling, it is recommended to lower specially prepared bentonite into the container.

Most likely, the first production of wine will be followed by the second, and the third, and the fourth. Gradually, this process will become a kind of annual sacred rite. A few years later, by trial and error, a lot of varieties of homemade wine will be invented. In addition to blue grapes, varieties such as Lydia, Isabella, Nastya, Kesha can be used for production.

Besides, wine can be made not only from grapes! A unique alcoholic drink can be obtained from fragrant raspberries, sweet blackberries, ripe apples, juicy currants, tender plums. The scope for imagination and experimentation is huge.

Homemade wine is so tasty and he althy that once you taste it, you will never want to buy its likeness in the store again. Naturalness, a huge amount of useful substances, divine aroma and taste make you fall in love once and for all…