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Homemade wine will warm you on a winter evening, keep the warmth of a sincere conversation with friends for a long time.
Natural ingredients, the energy of love of the hostess and the sun will do their job. Homemade wine just can't do any harm. This alcoholic drink will appeal to both guests and home. There are many varieties of grapes, but the drink made from the dessert sultan is preferred by all winemakers. This is a well-known raisin, with very small, almost invisible seeds. Amazing wines are created from it:
- dry table;
- delicious dessert;
- fortified sweet.
During the season they do grape wine, and when there are no fresh berries, they are replaced with raisins, which are easy to buy in the grocery chain.
Getting started with homemade winemaking
Those who have already made wine from raisins at home try to make the sourdough on their own. Commercial yeast can fail. If they are "weak", then fermentation slows down and oxidizes. Instead of a good sourdough, vinegar is obtained. Therefore, we will make a quality analogue of yeast from raisins:
- Pour raisins berries (200 g) into a bottle with a large neck, sprinkle with sugar on top. One teaspoon is enough.
- Fill the mixture with water (400 ml) and seal the bottle with a cotton stopper.
- We put the dishes with sourdough in a warm place for 3 days.
Do not forget that you need to store your own starter culture in the refrigerator for no more than 10 days. Many home winemakers use raisins for fermentation. It is taken in the same amount as fresh berries - 200 grams.
The leaven is ready. After 3-4 days, you can start making wine from raisins. Each type has its own nuances of cooking. But for any process you need the following ingredients for 10 kg of grapes:
- regular sugar - 3 kg;
- boiled water - 10 liters.
Additionally, we will prepare a sterile glove and container:
- glass bottle with a volume of 20 liters;
- enameled pot 15 liters.
It's easy to make wine from raisins at home. Let's take a closer look at making options for a wonderful drink.
Do-it-yourself dry wine from the Sultan
This wine is made from raisins without the addition of granulated sugar. Manufacturing technology is quite simple:
- Grind the raisins berries with a meat grinder or food processor to a state of gruel.
- Place in a saucepan or fermentation bottle. We fill its volume by ¾, no more.
- We do not install a water seal due to the highly active fermentation process.
- We stir the mass daily. At the same time, we try to crush the cap of raisins, which forms on the surface of the drink.
- After 14 days, we squeeze out the mass, and return the squeezed juice back to the fermentation tank.
- We leave for further fermentation for another 14 days in a warm place.
- When the time has passed, we drain the wort from the sediment. You can pass it through a siphon.
- Pour it into a fermentation container and now install a water seal on the neck of the bottle.
- Now we leave the wine in a warm room for a period of 2 weeks to a month.
- At the end of the fermentation process, the raisin wine is decanted. In a different way - pour over, aerate, give "breathe".
- A couple of weeks are clarified with egg white and filtered.
Now you can bottle the raisin drink and taste it right away. Dry wine does not require further aging.
Semisweet White Sultanine Wine Recipe
A popular drink because of its amazing taste and aroma. To get semi-sweet wine from raisins you need:
- Rinse thoroughly and chop the berries.
- Mix the resulting juice with the sourdough, which should be prepared in advance.
- Leave to ferment for 3-4 days.
- Stir the contents regularly twice a day.
- After 4 days, strain the liquid through cheesecloth and squeeze.
- Pour into a clean container, add 10 liters of slightly sweetened water at room temperature.
- Put a sterile glove on the neck of the bottle, remembering to make one puncture in it.
- Tie the glove tightly to the neck.
- Place the container in a room where the air temperature should be maintained no more than 20 ° C.
- After four days, the fermentation process weakens and sweetened water must be added to the liquid. Proportions - take 2 kg of granulated sugar for 2 liters of water.
- Transfer the future wine from raisins to a place with an air temperature of + 25 ° C.
- By observing the release of bubbles, the sugar fermentation process is controlled. This takes 2-3 weeks. As soon as the top layer of homemade wine lightens and stops bubbling, the process is complete.
- The wine is decanted and kept for a month in a cool place.
- During this time, the drink is cleaned from sediment 3 times.
2 months after the start of preparation, the raisin wine is ready for tasting. The output from this proportion is 15 liters.
Before serving, be sure to steam the decanter, pour the wine and offer to guests.
A container with ready-made raisin wine is stored in an upright position, filled to the top. The stopper must be at least 3 cm away to prevent contact with the drink.
Rice wine is considered a healthy, nutritious drink. It contains many vitamins and organic acids that grapes are rich in.
Therefore, moderate consumption of the drink is completely harmless and even beneficial to health.
