El Dorado Home Wine Making Website - Home Wine Making Information and Wine Recipes
Home Wine Making
- 21. Blackberry Wine Recipe ( 1 gallon)
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... 1/2 tsp of Pectic Enzyme 1 tsp Nutrient 1 Crushed Campden Tablet 1 pkg Wine yeast Starting Specific Gravity (S.G.) - 1.090 - 1.095 Wash and drain your berries. Make sure you have ...
- Created on 11 August 2016
- 22. Potassium Sorbate
- (Wine Making Information)
- POTASSIUM SORBATE Most home winemakers have experienced refermentation of off-dry wines after bottling. This can be very annoying, as it can cause corks to blow out; also, the resultant fizzy wines ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 23. Sulphur Dioxide (SO2) in Winemaking
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... lot of the SO2 will have been lost and their effects will be unreliable. You’re better off to use bulk potassium metabisulphite. It’s cheaper too. Sodium metabisulphite is also a source of SO2 but probably ...
- Created on 10 August 2016
- 24. Mead Wine Recipes
- (Fruit Wine)
- ... It was also used to make salted meat more palatable, hence honey hams. Wherever there was a large orchard there was sure to be an apiary. It was very common for households to have a small orchard as well ...
- Created on 15 September 2015
- 25. Wine Tasting Course
- (Wine Making Information)
- ... and sharing with friends. Avoid taking wine too seriously. This stuff is supposed to be fun. You don't have to pass a test to enjoy it, and you needn't learn a new language. The idea behind wine tasting ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 26. Sulphur Dioxide in WineMaking
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... lot of the SO2 will have been lost and their effects will be unreliable. You’re better off to use bulk potassium metabisulphite. It’s cheaper too. Sodium metabisulphite is also a source of SO2 but probably ...
- Created on 22 August 2015
- 27. Wine Glossary
- (Uncategorised)
- ... "Napa County" (the appellation) must have been made at least 85 percent from grapes that were grown in Napa County. APPLEY: Refers to smell or aroma of a wine, usually carrying additional modifiers. ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 28. Food Recipes
- (Recipes)
- Cook Book of the El Dorado Home Wine Making Web Site You have spent a lot of time making wine. You may have gone out and picked grapes. Stemmed and crushed the grapes. Fermented the grapes. Waited for ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 29. Port Wine Instructions
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... in. I have made my port from Carmine, a Merlot based hybrid from UC Davis and have tasted good port made from Zinfandel, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot. In general, grapes that have good fruit flavor seem ...
- Created on 29 January 2015
- 30. Triple Scale Wine Hydrometer
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... and you will have the alcohol content percentage by volume. For example: 1st reading 16% 2nd reading 4% Alcohol content 12% To USE YOUR HYDROMETER: Put a sample of must or wine in a hydrometer ...
- Created on 13 September 2014
- 31. Fining Agents
- (Uncategorised)
- ... to must prior to fermentation Isinglass 1 Tablespoon/ 5 gallons White wines that haven't clarified with Sparkolloid. Soak in 2 Cups water with 1/2 teasp. Citric Acid for 30 minutes. Prior ...
- Created on 13 September 2014
- 32. FAQ Tech Tips
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... can remove 1g of SO2, or to remove 10mg/L SO2 requires (34/64)*(10mg/L / 1000 mg/g) g/L H2O2. If you have a 30%w/v peroxide solution divide the g of H2O2 required by 0.3 to get mL required, or by 0.5 if ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 33. Acidity in Wine
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... acid Citric acid You may have seen or heard of a product called acid blend*, which is nothing more than a powdered mixture of the three acids listed above. If after conducting an acidity test of ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 34. Acid/pH Adjustments
- (Home Wine Making)
- ... for tartaric acid addition is 1 g/l to reduce the pH by 0.1. However, there are some cautions: 1. Different grapes have different buffering capacities; 2. High pH drops, say from 3.6 to ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 35. Acid Control in Winemaking
- (Uncategorised)
- ... Add sodium hydroxide to the wine, mixing with the stirring rod, until you have reached the number of mL of sodium hydroxide corresponding to the lowest number of your marked circles [in our example, 4mL]. ...
- Created on 12 September 2014
- 36. Growing Grapes in El Dorado County #2
- (Uncategorised)
- Degree-day heat summations: The concept of characterizing grape growing regions by degree-day heat summations was applied in California by Professors Winkler and Amerine of the Department of Enology and ...
- Created on 24 June 2014
- 37. Growing Grapes in El Dorado County
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- ... from grapes grown in two or more foothills appellations (e.g., Amador and El Dorado). For all appellations, 95% of the grapes processed to make a particular wine must have been grown within the designated ...
- Created on 24 June 2014
- 38. Home Page
- (Award Winning Grapes)
- Making excellent wines at home. What equipment do you need to make wine at home? Both the choice of equipment and the vocabulary of wine making may seem confusing to the beginner. You have come to the ...
- Created on 01 August 2013