If you have never made your own wine, you are going to need some easy wine development instructions to get you going.
Whether you are going to make wine from freshly pressed grapes or from a commercially prepared concentrate, the process is basically the same.
The essential elements needed for wine
Apart from grapes, you need water, sugar (some of which will come from the grapes) and yeast to make wine. Basically what happens is that the sugar and yeast react to one another and they start to ferment. The same thing happens when you brew beer or when you get ready the dough for baking bread.
A wine development formula will tell you how much of each ingredient to add, depending on the type of grapes or grape consolidate you are using.
The wine development process
The first step in the wine development process will depend on either you are using grapes or a concentrate. If you are using grapes then these will need to be crushed. Then you will need to inaugurate the wine yeast in a bottle of tepid water.
Once all the ingredients have been mixed together in a convenient container, they should be left to bubble and ferment. The instructions in the formula will specify for how long. They will also state when the wine should be racked, which entails siphoning the wine out of the fermentation pail into a clean container, so that the sediment that has sunk to the bottom is left behind.
The racking process is quite simple, although you have to be meticulous not to disturb the sediment, otherwise the wine will become cloudy and you'll have to keep on racking it.
Bottling your wine
While good instructions will explicate exactly when and how to bottle your homemade wine, it isn't always inherent for them to resolve exact timing. This is because conditions will be different for you and for me and for anyone else who is development and bottling their own wine. An invaluable rule of thumb is to only bottle your wine when it is really clear. When it's in the bottle it will continue fermenting slowly and the taste will continue to develop.
A final tip. Fill the bottle as much as possible, because any air left between the wine and the cork can change the color of the wine.
simple Wine production Instructions