Easy homemade wine

Submitted by kimkej

"This sounds so interesting I am dying to try it! Prep time is fermenting time."

 

• Ready In: 504hrs 15mins
• Ingredients: 4
• Yields: 15 bottles

ingredients

• 13 (32 ounce) bottles white grape juice
• 1 1⁄2 gallons filtered water
• 7 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1 package yeast

directions

1. Pour grape juice into 5-gallon container.
2. Bring water and sugar to a boil until sugar is melted.
3. Let cool.
4. Pour into container.
5. Add 1 pkg yeast (activating beforehand is optional).
6. Close with airlock stopper.
7. Allow to ferment for 3 weeks in a sanitized 5-gallon container.
8. After 1 additional week, bottle.

Reviews

[mksikora]

This was so much fun to make! I made it with all organic ingredients and used the resulting wine for my May Day punch. I added dried Sweet Woodruff and fresh strawberries and it was delightful! It's definitely a more rustic wine, not a crystal-clear table wine, but I was happy to have an organic wine with no added sulfites. No one reported a hangover from this wine!

 

[repsolal]

Have 1 batch on the go using 5 jugs white grape juice and 2 jugs white cranberry. Second batch using 5 jugs white cranberry and 2 jugs red cranberry...... initial taste test was good ! and the price was certainly right :-) I will post again after its aged a bit to give final taste results

 

[chefsandylee]

I found this recipe veery helpful thank you Kimke. I am going to try it with blueberries next time. Thank You again

 

[anola]

This wine is very good. I find the taste comparable to Kressman a French wine. The week before I bottled it, I strained it through a coffee filter. I cleaned the carboy and put the wine back in it. I added come clarifier and a week later I strained it again and bottled it.

 

[Sandrajp]

I did not want to rate it yet because I want to give it more time to age, but I will start with this rate. It has been 22 days. I just had to taste it. It tastes kind of like a white zinfandel. I used 2 64oz of Cranraspberry juice and the rest White grape juice. I am going to play with the recipe more with the next round. Thanks Kimke. It is fun and I did not have to go to a special wine making store to buy ingredients. Sandra