Green Grape Wine: 4 Easy Homemade Recipes

Now the market offers the widest range of alcoholic products. Special attention deserves white wine, which is made from the fruits of light, green grapes. It has a pleasant, light aroma and a rich, delicate taste. Depending on how much sugar is added at the time of preparation, you can get both sweet, semi-dry, and dry wine.

Properties of white grape wine

Wine has many beneficial properties for the human body, of course, when consumed in moderation. But, for all its benefits, this drink can also harm a person, especially when abused or in the presence of chronic diseases.

Benefit

It has a high content of trace elements, vitamins and essential oils, much higher than in grape juice. Wine significantly improves digestion, warms up the appetite, helps better absorption of proteins and iron. It helps to remove toxins from the body, including free radicals that cause great harm to it. The drink also helps fight colds and is used to prevent viral diseases.

Harm and contraindications

Harm from the use of wine can occur when the daily allowable dose of the drink, which is 120-150 milliliters, is exceeded. Significant abuse of wine leads to disruption of the normal functioning of such internal organs as the kidneys, liver, digestive and genitourinary systems. Serious disturbances in the human psyche are also observed.

Wine is not recommended for people with bad teeth, as the acids contained in the drink corrode tooth enamel. It is dangerous to use cheap, low-quality or simply unripened wines made in violation of technology, from dubious raw materials and other obscure ingredients. Otherwise, severe allergies, a terrible headache, and even an asthma attack can occur.

Suitable varieties for winemaking

Production of high-quality, tasty and fragrant wine directly depends on the right choice of a suitable variety. At the moment, the best varieties for winemaking are:

• Chardonnay;
• Sauvignon;
• Muscat white;
• Sylvaner;
• Kokur;
• Riesling;
• Isabella;
• Magarach's Firstborn;
• Fetyaska;
• Müller Thurgau.

Requirements for dishes

You can prepare and store wine in various dishes. Glass bottles and bottles, barrels and barrels made of alder and oak wood, stainless containers, as well as canisters and barrels made of high-quality polymers are suitable. But the latter option is only suitable for short-term storage of the drink.

Enameled and even aluminum dishes are used to crush juice, but then it needs to be poured into other, more suitable containers for safe fermentation.

How to choose ingredients

For the preparation of such wines choose varieties with the right ratio of sugar and acids, as well as with a high level of juice yield. The quality of the future drink directly depends on this. Moreover, grape must should ferment in a natural way, without the addition of yeast, this is also taken into account when choosing a variety.

How to make white wine at home

For the preparation of delicious, aromatic, sweet, semi-sweet or dry wine, you need to choose the right raw materials and strictly follow the instructions of proven recipes.

Dry wine

Dry are considered wines with a minimum sugar content (no more than 0.3%) or no sugar at all. As a result of fermentation by yeast, all the fructose in the juice is processed, but the preparation is not specially sweetened. The production of such a drink requires high quality raw materials, such wine is considered natural and especially useful.

A proven recipe will help you make great homemade wine. Required:

• grapes (with sweetness not lower than 15%) - 20 kilograms.

Step cooking:

1. First, they wash well all the containers necessary for preparing the drink and wipe them dry. This will protect the workpiece from the appearance of unpleasant odors and mold.
2. Now the berries are sorted out. All unripe, rotten and spoiled fruits are rejected. They can spoil the taste of the drink - it will become tart and sour. The fruits are never washed so that the must ferments well.
3. Selected fruits must be crushed by hand, the bones must be intact, so the use of the press is not suitable. The pulp and skin contain simple substances that play an important role in shaping the taste of the drink. Therefore, manual crush just creates the ideal environment for the fermentation of the wort.
4. Now the wort is poured into a glass bottle (fill the container 3/4 of the volume) with a wide neck, which is covered with gauze. Now you need to put the container in a warm place (with a temperature of +20 C … +25 C degrees) for a day.
5. After the pulp is squeezed through gauze, and pure juice is poured into a bottle with a narrow neck for subsequent fermentation. A medical glove is put on the neck or a water seal is installed.
6. The container is placed in a cellar or pantry, with a temperature of +16 C to + 28 C degrees.The blank is left to ferment for 1-1.5 months, and then the young wine is carefully poured into bottles. They are clogged with lids and placed in a basement with a temperature of +6 C to +16 C degrees for 1 month. After this period, the taste will become softer, and the wine will be ready to drink.

Semi-sweet

Making homemade wine with your own hands is not as difficult as it seems at first. But it will take attention, patience and strict adherence to the instructions of the recipe. Required Ingredients:

• fruits of grapes - 10 kilograms;
• granulated sugar - 3 kilograms.

Step cooking:

1. Grapes are sorted out, removing rotten berries. There is no need to wash them - there is yeast on the surface of the fruit, thanks to which the must will begin to ferment.
2. The fruits are poured into an enamel basin or pan and pressed well in any way possible. After the container is covered with gauze and put in a warm place for 5 days. Moreover, you need to mix the mass with a wooden spatula several times a day.
3. After the first signs of fermentation - the berries begin to float to the surface - all the pulp is placed in a colander, and the grape juice is filtered through a layer of gauze into a glass bottle. After that, sugar is poured, it is stirred, and a medical rubber glove is put on the neck of the bottle, pierced in several places. It is tightly fixed with an elastic band. The bottle itself must be filled to 2/3 of its volume, leaving room for gases.
4. After a few weeks the wine will stop playing - the glove will stop swelling and fall off. Now you need to conduct a tasting to determine the level of sugar. If the workpiece is sour, then add more sugar and let stand for a few more weeks. When the taste of the drink returns to normal, it is filtered again and poured into glass bottles. Then they are corked with corks and placed for 2-3 months in a cool cellar. After this period, the wine can be safely consumed.

Sweet

Sweet wines are those containing 55-80% sugar. To obtain a quality drink, the most juicy, ripe and even overripe clusters with maximum sugar content are chosen. Cooking begins with the preparation of these ingredients:

• fruits of grapes - 10 kilograms;
• sugar - 3 kilograms.

Step cooking:

1. After sorting the fruits, they are crushed to obtain juice and the must is allowed to settle.
2. Pour sugar into the workpiece and stir it thoroughly.
3. A water seal is put on the bottle and the blank is left to ferment for 3 weeks.
4. After the young wine is separated from the sediment, corked and left for another 2 months.
5. Now the drink is once again filtered through gauze, poured into glass bottles, corked and put in a cool place (basement, cellar) for 8 months. At the end of the term, the sweet wine is ready to drink.

Ice drink

Now an interesting and tasty drink is becoming more and more popular - ice wine made from light grapes. Many people think that a quality product is obtained only in the factory. But this is fundamentally wrong - great ice wine is easy to make at home.

You will need:

• fruits of white grapes - 1.5 kilograms;
• sugar - 1.5 kilograms.

Cooking features:

1. To get a really tasty drink, it is important to select exactly half-ripe berries. The highlight of the technology is that before squeezing the juice, the fruits are frozen. It is thanks to this procedure that the drink acquires special taste qualities and a charming aroma, which became the reason for its growing popularity.
2. After cooking technology is no different from that used in the production of ordinary white wine. The only important feature is to pour sugar into the workpiece after the very last, final stage of straining the juice.

Storage details

An open bottle of white wine is consumed within 3 days, after which it loses its taste and aroma. To extend this period, the bottle is corked and cooled. An effective technique is to pour from a larger container into a smaller one in order to minimize the air gap. In turn, corked bottles are stored in dry, rather dark, cool cellars and cellars.

The optimum temperature is from +10 C to +14 C degrees, then the wine not only retains its quality, but also continues to "ripen", gaining flavor and aroma. Moreover, it is desirable that bottles with a drink be stored in a horizontal position.

Some more important conditions for storing wine - the absence of extraneous, sharp, unpleasant odors and complete peace for containers.

It is not recommended to shake, rearrange or turn them until the moment of use.

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