How to make wine

Wine is an alcoholic beverage typically made of fermented grape juice. Almost all wines are made form grapes; some are made from other fruits. Grapes are mostly in season around autumn. There are a variety of grapes to select from when making wine. There are two categories of wine 1.still wine non-carbonated and sparkling wine carbonated. Wine making is also known as vinification.

Required tools

• Wooden Barrel
• Large buckets

Required materials

• Grapes of your choice

Instruction

1. Select grapes of your choice. Pick stem from grapes and wash thoroughly.
2. Crush grapes in large buckets.
3. Red wine is made from must (red or black grape juice with skin). While white wine is made from white grape juice.
4. Grapes are allowed to ferment (primary fermentation). Yeast convert sugar in most of the grape to ethanol and carbon dioxide. This takes about two weeks.
5. After primary fermentation grape pulp is transferred into a wooden barrel for further fermentation (secondary fermentation).
6. Wine is completed after remaining sugars are fully converted to alcohol.
7. At this time wine can be bottled. Some wines are kept in wooden to age for a longer time.

Tips & warnings

• The older the wine the more tasteful and expensive it is.