Wine can prevent cardiovascular disease, improve sleep, beauty, prevent colds, and relieve tension. This shows that regular consumption is good for health. Nowadays, many people make wine at home, which is safer and more reliable. So how do you make your own wine? How long does homemade wine last? Is homemade wine harmful? The following editorial will explain each of them.
I. How to make wine
Wine has high nutritional value and good taste, especially for women. Therefore, many women now have the habit of drinking wine. The wine you buy in the supermarket is not only expensive, but you may also buy fake wine. Nowadays, many people make wine at home.
Of course, the ingredients you need to make your own wine are grapes, large glasses, plates, spoons, and water bottles. As for grapes, it is best to buy grapes that are naturally ripe and not those that are out of season. Especially if you want to buy purple-red ones, they will taste better. Look at the fruit stem. If it is green and tastes sour, it may be labeled “erythropoietin”. It is best not to buy such grapes.
Use scissors to cut the grapes one by one near the stalk, leaving a little bit of the stalk to avoid hurting the skin. Do not pluck the grapes with your hands. Plucking grapes may hurt the skin. But put aside the grapes that hurt their skins, hide them and eat them, and do not use them to make wine. Then wash the grapes we cut, soak them in lightly salted water for 10 minutes, crush them, and leave the seeds and pulp in the basin. Then mix the grapes in a ratio of six pounds of grapes to one pound of sugar (if you like it sweeter, you can add more sugar), wait until the sugar is completely melted, and put them in a washed jar. To prevent outside air from entering, it is best to wrap the bottle tightly with a plastic bag.
How long can you drink homemade wine?
Although homemade wine does not have a shelf life, it does have a best-drinking period. Different wines have different best-drinking periods. For example, white and pink wines have a best-drinking period of 1 to 3 years. Red wines are best after 3 years, but the older they are, the better. This is mainly because wine is not as closed as white wine or distilled spirits such as gin, so it is not easy to drink for long periods of time. Generally speaking, it is best to drink wine within three years. Prolonged storage not only affects the taste, but is also harmful to your health.
How to preserve homemade wine?
Homemade wine is usually stored in wooden barrels, Coke bottles, glass jars, etc., but no matter what kind is easy to store, it must be well sealed.
Homemade wine is best stored at 12-15 degrees Celsius and must be stored in dark conditions such as in an incubator or basement.
In general, how long homemade wine can be stored should be determined by the quality of the homemade wine itself. However, since wine is made at home by individuals who are not professional in wine grapes, utensils and craftsmanship, in the past, the final wine made will be mixed with more magazines and will easily deteriorate. Therefore, it is recommended that homemade wines be stored for no more than 2 years, although this does not preclude us from making good wines that can withstand aging.
Which grapes are suitable for homemade wine
There are two types of wine: red wine and white wine. In fact, the two types of wine are made in the same way, but the choice of grapes is different. How can we make good wine? What grapes are suitable for homemade wine?
If you are making wine, you should, of course, use red grapes. The darker the grapes, the riper and fresher they are, as they have a relatively high sugar content. If the grapes are red-skinned and red-fleshed, even better. For white wines, choose green grapes or red-skinned white flesh grapes. If the flesh of white grapes is whiter than the light green flesh, the sugar content in the grapes is relatively high and ripe.
2. Grape precision is derived from the amount of sugar contained in the grapes. The color of red grapes comes from the pigments contained in the skin and flesh of the grapes. Therefore, try to choose grapes that are well ripened, fresh, clean and hygienic.
3. Wine grapes can be grown from Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Gamay, etc. White wine can be made from varieties such as “Longevity”, “Noble” and “Chardonnay”.
4. Is homemade wine harmful?
Wine is still in its infancy, so we are not familiar with wine making. Some people even make wine at home. In fact, if you make wine in the wrong way, it can be harmful to your health. What are the dangers of homemade wine?
1. If not properly selected, it can easily cause poisoning. Some grapes are treated with insecticides and it is not necessary to wash the grapes too well during the winemaking process, as the microorganisms on the surface of the grapes will then be used for fermentation.
2. Improper containers can also cause poisoning. The key to homemade grapes is fermentation. Of course, a good container is necessary for fermentation. If we use glass and ceramic as fermentation containers, it is safe and reliable. If you use stainless steel or even iron containers as fermentation containers, you are likely to make poison.
3. If there are hygiene problems with homemade wine, it is also easy to cause poisoning. The fermentation time for homemade wine is 7 days. If there are problems such as bacterial infections during these 7 days, it is easy to cause grape rotting. If the container is not cleaned, the grapes may become spoiled.
4. Other problems, such as mutation of grapes caused by prolonged irradiation. High temperatures can cause enzyme mutations and other factors that can cause toxicity in domestic wines.
