White Recipe
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Ingredients
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For White Wine
Method
Winemaking Process
- 1
Prepare the Grapes
Wash the Chardonnay grapes thoroughly. Remove the stems and any damaged grapes. Crush the grapes to release their juices into a large fermentation vessel.
- 2
Add Water
Pour 2 gallons of water into the fermentation vessel with the crushed grapes. Stir well to combine.
- 3
Add Sugar
Dissolve 3 cups of sugar in a small amount of warm water and add it to the fermentation vessel. Stir until fully dissolved.
- 4
Add Campden Tablets
Crush 5 Campden tablets and add them to the mixture in the fermentation vessel. This will help to kill wild yeast and bacteria.
- 5
Add Acid Blend
Stir in 2 tsp of acid blend to balance the acidity of the wine.
- 6
Pitch the Yeast
Sprinkle the packet of wine yeast over the surface of the mixture. Do not stir. Let it sit for 24 hours to allow the yeast to hydrate.
- 7
Fermentation
After 24 hours, gently stir the mixture to incorporate the yeast. Seal the fermentation vessel with an airlock and allow it to ferment in a dark, cool place for about 1-2 weeks.
- 8
Racking
Once fermentation has slowed (bubbles will become less frequent), siphon the wine off the sediment into a clean fermentation vessel, leaving sediment behind.
- 9
Aging
Let the wine age in a cool, dark place for at least 3 months. Taste periodically to check maturity.
- 10