Carbs in Wine… Fact or Fiction?

Carbs in wine usually come from sugar, right? This is a common notion among most people. After all, in the process of making wine, even homemade wine, grapes or any kind of fruit is one of the main ingredients. And of course, this fruit contains sugar. The sugar feeds on yeast first which in turn produces carbon dioxide and alcohol. This process is what we call fermentation. So when people say that carbs in wine are present, they automatically think that it comes from sugar, which is not true. Carbs in wine are not from sugar. Contrary to popular belief, carbs in wine come from the alcohol itself. Remembering your basic chemistry, there is a simple formula that we can use to determine the level or amount of carbs in wine or in any an alcoholic beverage. This formula goes like this: 1.6 x % alcohol x oz. of liquid. For example, you’re drinking about 5 oz. of wine and it has12% alcohol. We determine the amount of carbs by doing the following multiplication: 1.6 x 12 x 5 = 96. This means that drinking 5 oz. of wine with 12% alcohol will give you 96 calories. The calories you get here come solely from the alcohol in the wine and not from the sugar since that’s already been fermented. There are also trace amounts of protein in the wine, 0.0 grams of saturated fats and 0 grams of fat. This means that there are really NO carbs in wine since wine is primarily water and alcohol.

Concerning diets which are very much prevalent these days, there are people who say that red wines offer less carbs because they are less sweet and more bitter. It can’t be stressed enough that there are no carbs in wine. Furthermore, what these people don’t know is that the characteristic color of red wines comes from the skin of the grapes that are used in the winemaking process. This makes the quality of the wine thicker and richer too. While the lack of sweetness comes from the tannins used and not from lack of sugar. So when one makes white wine for instance, what they do is they don’t let the wine sit on grape skin while it undergoes the process of fermentation. And they use less tannin to bring out the sweet rather than the tannic taste.

Just remember this, winemaking is all about taking the grapes or any fruit and letting it undergo the fermentation process by letting the sugar feed on yeast to produce alcohol and carbon monoxide. That is pretty much the basic wine instruction for any wine maker. So be sure to enjoy your favorite wine and not worry too much about the carbs in wine. Wine is pretty much safe and healthy when taken in moderation. Try to not limit yourself with the choices available to you. There are numerous kinds of wines out there and it would be very exciting to widen your horizons and treat wine tasting and winemaking as an exciting adventure!

Important Wine Directions That You Should Follow

In making wines, especially those DIY wine or homemade wine, there are certain wine directions one must religiously follow in order to create the most delicious tasting wine, whether it be margaux wine, white wine, merlot, carignan or cabernet sauvignon. Indeed, wine making recipes won’t be complete without the following wine directions:

This is the top 1 in wine directions: Cleanliness

This is the most important of all wine directions that you have to keep remembering as you venture into the wonderful world of DIY wine. And by cleanliness, it does not only mean that your place of work (may be your kitchen, may be your backyard) should be spotlessly clean but more importantly, it should be chemically clean too. This particular wine direction is so critical that you must understand that the area you are working at is properly sterilized in order to kill any bacteria and/or keep airborne yeasts and vinegar flies at bay. The free Ebook we’ll be giving you has all the detailed wine directions on how to go about this process of sterilization and cleanliness.

An important note in wine directions: Fermentation

This is one of the most important and crucial wine directions. This is the process or function that turns your grape juice into wine or alcoholic beverage. During this stage, the yeast feeds on the sugar in order to produce ethanol, which is more commonly known as ethyl alcohol, and carbon dioxide. Two kinds of fermentation happen at this stage — primary fermentation that can take up to 14 days and secondary fermentation which takes up an additional 10 days.

Other Important Wine Directions:

Dos

Keep all your equipment spotlessly clean.

Keep your first ferment closely covered.

Keep air away from the secondary fermentation.

Always use fermentation traps.

Keep all bottles full to within ¾ in. of cork.

Strain liquor off must slowly and thoroughly.

Make wines too dry rather than too sweet: sugar them later.

Use yeast nutrient regularly, and reliable yeast.

Add sugar by stages. Keep detailed records.

Rack at least once, and preferably twice or thrice.

Taste the wine you are making, at intervals.

Always use new corks or stoppers, and boil old ones.

Keep red wines in dark bottles, or they will lose their colour.

Don’ts

Distill your wine.

Allow a single vinegar fly access to your wine at any stage.

Use any metal vessel if the wine will be long in contact with it.

Use any tools or containers of resinous wood.

Omit to stir a must twice daily.

Use too much sugar initially.

Try to speed a fermentation by too high a temperature.

Be impatient; making wine takes time.

Let your wine stand on dead yeast or sediment.

Filter unnecessarily or too soon; most wines will clear of their own accord.

Put wine in unsterilized bottles or jars.

Bottle your wine whilst it is still fermenting.

Use screw-stoppered bottles.

Drink too much!

The Basic Steps On How To Make Wine

You have now reached the most exciting part of this journey — discovering the real secrets on how to make wine, one that is homemade. Before starting, it is important to remember that cleanliness is always the name of the game on how to make wine: clean and sanitize everything before you begin. Below is a summarized version of the process of how to make wine that is perfect and right at the comforts of your own home. Detailed wine directions are available in our free Ebook which we are giving to our subscribers and readers.

1. The first process on how to make wine will of course involve the function of fermentation or the process of turning yeast into alcohol by feeding off on sugar. Therefore, in order to do this, you would need your yeast and any sugary product to be mixed together. If you have a good wine making recipe, just follow it. Otherwise, you can get three basic wine recipes in the Ebook that we will give to you for free.

2. Next on the list on how to make wine is Racking. It is the process of siphoning the wine from the first container to the second container. This happens after about 10 days of primary fermentation. This is because you wouldn’t want any dead yeast to affect the flavor of your wine now, would you? Therefore the goal here is to get all the wine and leave the dead yeast in the first bottle. Of course, you may lose a little wine in the process and you won’t have the same amount of wine as you did on the first bottle. So what you do is add a bit of regular tap water and then…wait.

3. The next on the list on how to make wine is all about the airlock. Airlock must be on for about 2-4 weeks. At the end of this period, you should have your very first homemade wine. The longer it sits there inside the secondary bottle, the better your wine will taste. This secondary stage of fermentation can take up to three months. Just be patient.

4. When the winemaker tries to stop fermentation, we call this stabilizing the wine. The commonly used stabilizer is Potassium Sorbate. It doesn’t necessarily kill the yeast but it does stop the yeast from fermenting.

5. Bottles and corks must be prepared way before start experimenting on how to make wine. You can ask for used bottles in your local wine shops or supermarkets. Just be sure you sterilize them first and clean them well. When you fill up each bottle with wine, fill each one up to the neck and cork them one after the other or at the same time. A little air won’t hurt the whole batch. Just be careful not to splash the wine and to just quietly siphon it from the first bottle to the second.

6. Now that you’re done, you can do other things to improve the quality of your homemade wine and make it more presentable especially if you plan to give it as a gift to someone special. You can add flavors, use different additives, add fortifiers, etc.

Now that you know how to make wine, what are you waiting for?

A Special Feature On Margaux Wine

Margaux Wine… A Brief Description

Aristocratic, fluffy, soft, artistic, beautiful, serene, elegant and tasteful… one can never run out of beautiful adjectives to describe Margaux wine…these words best characterize the secrets of Margaux. You will be happy to know that this region is quite different from its friendly neighbors way up north, the Haut-Médoc. Since it is home to the name-sharing premier cru, at the south of St. Julien, Margaux is proud of its marshlands, though they only have a few. Because the distance in geography is quite obvious, it also goes to follow that its wine also has a distinct characteristic that makes it very unique from those of the Bordeaux.

Important Notes to Remember About Margaux Wine

It can’t be denied that out of all the blends in the region, Cabernet Sauvignon takes the lead in the pack. However, a huge percentage in Margaux wine belongs to another popular kind — Merlot. The fact that the region has diverse soil, which is lighter than that in the north, this helps produce a more fluffy and voluptuous kind of wine. During their best seasons, Margaux wine is tasteful, exquisite and fine. But it does have a firm structure to back this up. You will notice that the expensive prices often reflect this fact. Their first growth is Chateau Margaux of course and Chateau Palmer, their third growth. Both are also well-respected and loved. But if you’re looking for a much lower priced kind of Margaux wine, try their Cru Bourgeois.

For those of you who are traveling up north from the regions of ancient wine, Graves and Sauternes, you will have reached Médoc and you will have seen their beautiful and elegant wines known as Margaux. Here, numerous villages line up the region, some of which will probably sound familiar to you like Cantenac, for example. However, Margaux was able to dominate the entire region, giving its name not only to the brand as a whole, but also to the region’s only Premier Grand Cru Classé estate, Chateau Margaux.

The Margaux Brand

One of these days, when you do visit the beautiful estate of Chateau Margaux, you will be struck by the fantastic view of the grand chateau, which you could immediately see from the end of the driveway, appearing through the vertical bars of the monumental gate. You will feel fortunate enough to enter the glorious domicile, through the cellars and the barrel-making areas. They provide wine tasting to their visitors so you will be lucky to taste a single vintage Margaux wine.

Indeed Chateau Margaux is now the standard bearer of the Margaux brand. The Margaux wine brand is excessive and represent the excitement that these wines of the commune exude. But it must be noted that this has not always been the case for Margaux wine. It is through the guidance of the Mentzelopoulos family, with the help of Paul Pontallier who runs the chai, the Margaux estate has been succeeding in turning out wines righteous of status of first growth for several decades now.

Making Special Wines, A Rising Trend

Did it ever occur to you where wines come from? What do people use in making wine? How does one do the process of making wine? When one thinks of wine, the fruit that immediately comes to mind is grapes, right? After all, it is the most typical of all fruit wines. From here comes the three more popular kinds of wine which are Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon and Carignan. However, there are still so many kinds of wines out there that you can use for your own personal consumption. Did it ever occur to you that there could be other sources of wine? What are these other sources used in making wine? Numerous recipes in making wine will show you that wines do not only come from fruits, but from other products as well which you will find out as you read on…

Non-Grape Wine

Like what was mentioned, there are other wines that are made from other fruits besides grapes. There are wines made from different kinds of berries like strawberries, elderberries, blueberries, etc. There are wines made from starches as well as flowers and weeds likes marijuana and dandelion.

Fruit wines have become more popular among those making wine in the colder regions such as North America and Scandinavia. The reason for this is that many of the fruits and berries available in these areas have the potential to produce real good wine for everyday consumption. It doesn’t matter much if the sugar levels of these fruits are quite low. They can resolve this problem by simply supplementing the process with chaptalization. This process in making wine makes the fruit produce sufficient alcohol levels to produce good wine. Winemakers add sucrose so that fruits having excessive levels of acids (usually citric or malic acid) can split the sucrose into fermentable fructose and glucose sugars. Furthermore, many fruit wines suffer from a lack of natural yeast nutrients which are needed to maintain or promote fermentation. What winemakers do to counter this is add nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Not like the other grape-based wines, fruit wines often do not really improve with bottle age and must be consumed within a year of bottling.

Starch Wine

Not many people are familiar with the fact that wine can be produced from starch. Two perfect examples of this kind are Sake and rice wine. Making wine of this nature is significantly different from the usual methods of winemaking. But it does closely resemble the process of making beer.

Other Wines

There are other, somewhat extraordinary, sources of wine. Making wine in China is quite unique because they sue fish. In Scotland, home winemakers have experimented with making wine out of turnips and carrots. Others have tried it with honey, oranges and lemons. In the US, many have already experimented with wines that come from marijuana. In the Celtic regions, they are very much fond of wine made from dandelion. In West Africa, they use their palm trees where red palm oil also comes from. Soon, as you become an expert on this, you too can come up with your own winemaking recipe and winemaking instructions.

The DIY Wine: Cabernet Sauvignon

Among all the available wines in the market, the one that is likely the best candidate for the process of aging is none other than Cabernet Sauvignon. It is the kind that greatly improves in taste, texture and quality the longer it is stored. It is by far the most popular among the red wines in California, even among the classification: wine diy. It has a unique aroma, a black currant aroma in particular, that unfolds into nuances of a variety of flavors — cedar, leather, violets, cigar box, etc. The tannic edge it has may considerably soften and smoothen. That’s Cabernet wine diy for you.

The grapes used for the making of Cabernet Sauvignon wine diy are spherical, small, dark, and with a very tough skin. This characteristic makes it impervious to contamination as well as to decay. Their thick skin also makes them resistant to autumn rains causing them little damage. Because of these qualities, Cabernet Sauvignon, became a popular red wine varietal along the lines of Merlot and Carignan, even in the wine diy category.

The reason behind Cabernet Sauvignon’s popularity partly stemmed from the appeal of the unique flavor of the grape and also partly on its appeal as a collector’s wine. Because of this, Cabernet Sauvignon is affected by inflationary climb as collectors and fans as well as the newly rich affect its supply and bid it upward.

We now come to the winemaking or the wine diy part. Let’s divide the wine diy instructions to three parts: Crushing, Primary Fermentation, Racking and Aging.

Wine DIY Ste p 1: Crushing

After picking or buying the grapes, rinse them using tap water whether from a garden hose or on a huge kitchen sink. Take out or cut the big stems. It’s okay to leave tiny little twigs.
Crush the grapes or stomp on them if you don’t have a machine for this process. This will make you produce grape juice.
After stomping on them and producing grape juice, what is left is what you call the “must”. This is the combination of grape juice, skins, and little twigs. Pour it all out into the fermenter or vats for the next step — primary fermentation.

Wine DIY Step 2: Primary Fermentation

Now that you have the must, test it first for acidity as well as sugar content using a testing kit that you can buy from a store.
The results you will get will determine if you need to add more sugar content to the must.
You will also use the test results to determine how many Campden tablets you will put into the must.
Tightly cover the must and leave it for 24 hours.
Then add the winemaker’s yeast into the cabernet must. Seal them again and let them ferment. For one week, make sure that you come back by stirring it twice a day with a wooden paddle.

Wine DIY Step 3: Racking and Aging

Get the fermenters or vats and pour out the contents into another empty vat using a strainer to get rid of the grape skins and little twigs. This is now what you call a young, new, “green” wine.
You’d have to test the acidity of the wine again. If it’s too high, you can dilute it with spring water (least preferred), or by adding potassium bicarbonate, or calcium carbonate.
Get an empty vessel and siphon the “green” wine there for aging. Because of Cabernet’s strong affinity for oak, oak barrels are typically used. But since they are way too expensive for home winemakers, you can substitute it with a 5-gallon glass carboys with 2-3 oak chips dropped at the bottom.
Seal the carboy tightly and store it in a dark cellar for three weeks.
After three weeks of secondary fermentation, top off the vessels to compensate for settling. What you do is drain the least full vessel with a siphon hose and fill up the others. Kill the microorganisms that got in during this procedure by adding a spoonful of sulfite to each of the vessel. Tightly seal each vessel with an airlock after.
You can discard any leftover wine you may have. This will just turn into vinegar. If not, transfer it to a smaller container.
Let the wine age for another 4-6 months before bottling it.

Basic Ingredients and Equipment Used In Homemade Wine

In making wine homemade, it is alright to not have brand new equipment. Most of the equipment that you will need in making wine homemade may already be available in your own kitchen so do check them out first before opting to buy new ones.

- ½ Gallon Winchester Bottles & Wine Bottles with Corks.

- Boiler (must be made of aluminum or enamel).

- Glass Tubing

- Hydrometer

- One Gallon Glass Jars with Corks

- Plastic Dustbin or any large plastic vessel.

- Polyvinyl Tube.

- Small Press.

Other Equipment and Tools:

- Bottle-Cleaning Brush

- Casks

- Colander

- Cork Borer

- Corking device

- Jelly Bags for straining

- Large Polythene Funnel

- Measuring Jugs

- Scales

- Small Funnels

- Stone Jars

- Thermometer

- Tie-on labels for jars and stick-on labels for bottles

- Wooden Spoon

So how do you make wine homemade? Well, we now come to one of the most important part of how to make wine at home — the ingredients of course. As you become more familiar with the secrets of making wine homemade, as you become more of an expert with creating your own wine making recipe, you can later on experiment with other additional ingredients. But for now, here are the most basic ones:

Wine Yeast

Yeast is one of the most crucial ingredients in making wine, even wine homemade. There are many kinds of yeast that you can use. It is also not enough that yeast is present in your ingredients, but as a winemaker, there are ideal situations that you must reach in order for your yeast to multiply accordingly. Don’t worry. This is just very easy to do as you will later find out.

Sugar

Sugar is very important too. Without it, your yeast won’t be able to feed on anything in order to multiply. Aside from that, there is an amount that you need to follow in order to attain the best fermentation possible for your wine homemade. There are also other crucial information which, as a winemaker, you should know when buying sugar. This will make sure that the quality of your wine homemade is at its best. The free ebook that we are giving out will explain this in further details.

Acid

The right amount of acidity will determine if your wine homemade will reach the right levels of fermentation. Therefore, it is important to follow wine making instructions of your wine making recipe to the letter. This will ensure superb quality of your wine later on. And as you get the hang of it, which is quite easy, then you can move on to more advanced wine making recipes which you can sell at a profit in the near future.

Tannin

Using the right amount of Tannin can help greatly improve the taste of your wine homemade. Do you notice that most wines taste dry to the mouth? Tannin is the one responsible for that texture. It is therefore very important to follow the correct amount given in wine making recipes. Otherwise, it could leave some uncharacteristic taste to your wine homemade.

Short History On The How To Of Homemade Wine

Believe it or not, the great history of wine, the how to homemade wine and winemaking in general span over many thousands of years and are very much related to the history of the world particularly in the field of civilization, agriculture, cuisine and humanity as a whole. Countless evidences were found suggesting that early civilizations had the knowledge about the production of wine that is homemade, how to make grape wine and use of wine in general. Take for instance the following accounts:

- Georgia and Iran were evidenced to have the earliest wine production some time in 6000 to 5000 BC. This early, people already know the how to homemade wine.

- In Europe, archaeologists were able to dig up evidences dating back to 6,500 years ago, particularly in the Macedonian region suggesting that they also had the earliest evidence of winemaking activity. Again, how fascinating that people of this era already know the how to homemade wine.

- As for the Egyptians, their ceremonial life was very important to them. It has been recorded that their early ways of conducting rituals and ceremonies included winemaking. Here, the use, consumption and making of wine played a very significant role in the way they do things. You can even see depictions of these early way of life on the walls of their tombs.

- In China, evidences were traced back from 2000 to 1000 BC.

Answering the how to homemade wine was definitely not a problem to early dwellers and people.

Wine was considered an essential part of the diet as well as the tradition of the Romans and Greeks during the Roman and Greek classical times. They adapted a cutting-edge technology that has become quite popular with them during the Roman Empire. This technology was called the Wine Press. Because of this machinery, various kinds of grapes, land growing techniques and barrels were created for the storage and shipping of wine. This made it all the more easy to learn the how to homemade wine.

Did you know that even the Catholic Church, just after the fall of the Roman Empire, also became an avid fan of wine and wine production because of its necessity in their mass celebration? They didn’t have any problem at all with the how to homemade wine. This was one of the reasons why the use of wine has proliferated since the 15^th century. However, in other religions like Islam, any form of alcohol has been forbidden. But if it was for medicinal purposes, then that would be fine.

In terms of wine’s prehistoric data, there is very little record that has been found. It is speculated that ancient people perfected their answer about the how to homemade wine and formulated their own mixture made of various fruits specifically wild grapes and from there grew their winemaking ventures.

If we are to try to locate where winemaking first originated, it would be quite a difficult achievement. All evidences point to different locations, from the boundaries of North Africa to the boundless lands of South and Central Asia.

As for the modern wine culture that we have today, a huge part of it came from the ways of the ancient Greeks. Those grapes that were cultivated in modern Greece were pretty much similar to what was cultivated during the ancient times.

Doesn’t winemaking sound so fantastic? How to homemade wine definitely solved. And being able to create your own right at the comforts of your own home will make you a part of this long lived tradition of not just enjoying the taste of wine but of being able to make some for yourself, your family and friends and eventually even selling some for profit.

So read on and be sure to download the free ebook on the great secrets on how to homemade wine. This will prove to be one of the best things you’ve ever done for yourself!

Simple Tips On How to Make Carignan Grape Wine

How to make grape wine? Did you know that in France, the most widely-planted red wine grape is Carignan. This started in the 1960s upon the attainment of independence of Algeria, which then became an inexpensive source of ripe grapes and from where France get its bulk supply.

So on how to make grape wine, the good thing about Carignan grapes is that it takes a bit longer to ripen and requires a long season. This way, it therefore avoids being prone to spring frosts. It is however, sensitive to powdery and downy mildew. This is why it is very important to choose your grapes carefully to avoid those that have already been hit by mildew. Take note of this very important information as it will help you in learning how to make grape wine.

Carignan does not hold the popularity like what Cabernet Sauvignon has. This is because it produces wines not just with high acidity, but with high levels of color and tannin as well without displaying much character, flavor or personality. This makes it inexpensive as compared to other varietals. Carignan is best for everyday consumption.

On how to make grape wine such as the Carignan, you can follow the very basic method like that of Merlot wine making. The following are just additional wine making instructions you have to take note of when learning how to make grape wine such as the Carignan.

Choosing Carignan grapes is very crucial. They should be picked ripe in order for the texture and mouthfeel to be at its best. Flavors would also be more complex and richer as compared to those picked at lower levels of ripeness. Also, you have to take the time in sorting out the grapes before you actually begin making wine at home. Aren’t you finding this easy? Are you having fun learning about how to make grape wine so far?

Based on long lived tradition of wine making, uncrushed Carignan grapes respond well to fermentation. Crushed fruits whose stems and twigs were taken out will produce earthy/ smoky/ meaty aromas while whole fruit will yield sweeter and more berry-like aromas.

In learning how to make grape wine like the Carignan, you will learn that it has the capacity to give soft, fruity, earthy drinking wines as long as the fermentation is cool and short. What you do is you can put the fermenter in the sun or use heating pads or punch down the cap as many times in a day as is practical, perhaps at least twice in a day. This will also benefit from long macerations; but it’s important to protect the wine from spoilage as CO2 production falls off. In terms of time consumed, the smaller the wine lot, the shorter the whole vinification process should be. Furthermore, you can make delicious wine from very small quantities of fruit if you shorten everything up: rack soon, don’t try to introduce oak flavor just because Chateau Woodstone Hills Creek does it, be paranoid about oxidation, and bottle early.

Knowing how to make grape wine like the Carignan is so much fun. It is the kind of wine that does not need new wood when it comes to aging especially if you are just making homemade wine that is less than 10 gallons. You can simply use a glass or stainless steel vessel instead. If you want it to have some oak character, you simply just drop in few pieces of medium-toast oak chips per five gallon carboy.

Simple Tips on How To Make Merlot Wine At Home

During the 90’s era, did you know that Merlot was “in” among the American wine consumers? It inspired them to learn how to make wine at home because it was “it” among all the other wines available in the market. It was at that time that wine consumption had an economic surge and the consumers started moving away from what’s typical, to what’s new, proven and “hot” — the California wine grapes back in the 70’s. Actually, these California wine grapes only appeared as a varietal label in the 70’s. But it was in the 80’s that they really started selling big until they dominated the wine market.

They call Merlot wine as an insurance for the vineyard just because its ripening period is a week earlier than other varietals such as the Cabernet. This means that rain is very important in the process of its harvest.

Serving Merlot wine is best when done in a slightly below the room temperature. Otherwise, if the alcohol hits 74 degrees F, your wine might taste a bit sharper than usual and you wouldn’t want that. Therefore, make sure that in learning how to make wine at home, you cool your bottle of wine first for about 15 minutes up to twenty minutes maximum inside the refrigerator. This way, you will be able to serve it at the best temperature possible and you can be sure that it will taste very good.

Learning about how to make wine at home, particularly when it comes to Merlot wine making instructions, is practically the same with any basic homemade wine making recipe. You of course have to prepare all the equipment needed which I have detailed on a separate post on this site. You also have to gather all the basic ingredients which were also listed in detail at a separate post. On how to make wine at home, particularly Merlot wine, aside from the usual wine ingredients, you will also need to add the following: 22 liters of merlot juice and 1 liter of blackberry juice.

Here is a list of simple instructions on how to make wine at home that you need to follow in order to create great tasting Merlot wine. After you go through everything, you will know for sure that it’s so easy learning about how to make wine at home and eventually, how you too can make a simple winemaking recipe for your own pleasure.

In a bucket, combine potassium metabisulphate and 1 gallon of water. Get the cloth and soak it in the solution for five minutes. Afterwards, you use the same cloth in cleaning the fermenters.
In one of the fermenters, pour the blackberry and merlot juices and mix them together by stirring them well.
This time, you add the yeast and Lalvin EC1118 champage yeast right on top. Set it aside for one hour after which, you stir them well.
For the next 5 days, stir the mixture once each day. Then leave it again for another 2 days.
Have the fermenter sealed and leave the mixture for another 21 days.
Siphon the mixture by transferring it from the first fermenter to the second. Then leave it again for 28 more days.
At this time, the Merlot wine is now ready for bottling. Then leave it for the next 30-90 days to make sure it has aged well. Isn’t it easy… knowing how to make wine at home?

That’s it on how to make wine at home… Merlot wine that is!