Wine Recipes

Recommendations and simple recipes for new winemakers

Winemaking can be as simple or as complicated as you wish to make it.

This leaflet is intended to be an introduction for new or lapsed winemakers

You can enhance your knowledge by joining your local winemakers circle or referring to books and online resources.

Basic Equipment: the following is necessary to start winemaking.

1.       A plastic bucket, preferably white, 2 gallon, 10l capacity.

 2.       1 or 2 one-gallon jars (demi johns) with bored rubber bungs and airlocks

3.       Plastic funnels, one small and one large

4.       Muslin straining bag

5.       Syphon tubing

 6.       Hydrometer. This measures the sugar content of the solutions and therefore allows you to calculate the alcohol percentage.

All equipment must be clean and sterilized.

When fermenting, a temperature of around 21° is perfect. If it too much warmer then it will ferment too fast. If its cooler then it will not ferment correctly.