If you can’t imagine any occasion without  wine and consider the choice of wine as a special ritual, giving more preferences, first of all, to a delightful flavor, so you are a real wine connoisseur. But have you ever thought about making your own wine? Have you had an idea of making wine specially for you? Today in our article we want to give you some useful hints at making good homemade wine.

So don’t be afraid, everything you need is place, where to make wine, for example a cellar and special utensils.

The first stage is crushing the grapes. As you can remember many years ago wine makers crushed the grapes to release juice from grape’s skins. Today this procedure has become easier with appearance of special machine, which is called a crusher. But if you haven’t the one, you can do it with the help of your hands. So firstly, it’s necessary to separate the grapes from stalks and to crush them just by your hands. Then boil water and pour over the crushed grapes, and leave them.

They will soak and drain during 48 hours. Then you need to find a vessel and after draining to pour liquor into the vessel. If you want sweet and strong wine, add a lot of sugar, in other case, add sugar according to your flavor. Sugar will melt for a long time in a cold liquor, so you will need a lot of time to mix it. When sugar is dissolved, add the barm and leave them to ferment during 14 days. A lot of modern wines are fermented at low temperature and then wines as a rule have some fruity peculiarities. White wines are usually made in big, cool, steel containers. But the most favourable variant for better quality of wine is to ferment it in oak casks.

The next stage is bottling. Before bottling keep in mind that different types of wines are matured during different periods – from days to years.

Remember that after bottling the flavor of wine can evolve slowly, so it will be better for wine quality and flavor to have long ripening.

Some things you should do or not do in winemaking:

- you haven’t an opportunity to sell your wine without license;

- don’t use metal containers or containers, made out highly resinous wood;

- for better fermenting process use oak casks;

- don’t add a lot of sugar;

- stir only once a day;

- be patient;

- keep your utensils and equipment clean;

- it is better to keep red wines in dark bottles;

- use new corks or if they are old, it is be obligatory to boil them;

- taste the changes of wine flavor from time to time to control the process of winemaking.

So these are the rules of winemaking at home. If you want to discover the new special flavor and uniqueness of homemade wine – your task is just to follow them and then to enjoy the result.

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