Homemade Wine is starting to become more and more popular as a hobby for a new generation of wine lovers. Handcrafted bottles of sweet nectar at pennies per bottle, it truly is a dream come true for many wine enthusiasts. Akin to a Chef in the kitchen, you get to mix and match different ingredients, tinkering here and there to come up with your perfect Wine Making Recipe. As the saying goes, Wine Making is both a science and an art. So how do you master both and create bottles after bottles of great tasting wine?
Wine is defined as an alcoholic beverage made from the fermented juice of any of various kinds of grapes and/or any of various other fruits or plants. A quick search on the Internet reveals hundreds and hundreds of Wine Making Recipes for both grape wine and non-grape wines. So where and how do you begin? The main ingredient ofany Wine Making Recipe is the juice. It could be grape juice, apple juice or even strawberry juice for that matter. Yeast is then added (together with a few other ingredients) to ferment the natural sugar in the juices and convert them into alcohol. Personally, I like to make my wine according to seasonal fruit availability. This will ensure that the fruit juices I use contains the highest amount of natural sugar and flavor, as well as keeping in mind that seasonal fruits are so much lower in cost as well. However, one can now easily obtain concentrates and imported fruits at the supermarket. So this is ultimately your choice when it comes to choosing which Wine Making Recipe.
The next most important thing that any serious home wine maker must have, is a wine log. You absolutely have to note down every possible thing that went on during the wine making process. From the source of the ingredients, the steps you have taken, the amount of ingredients you have used and the fine tuning made to each batch of wine, you get to refine your Wine Making Recipe over time. You will be able to clearly identify where and when you have done something right, and also what went wrong if the batch did not turn out as expected. A wine log will definitely help you become a better wine-maker.
