Category — winemaking videos

Here’s Step 5 of my How to Make Wine Video Series! In this fifth video, I explain how to use an automatic bottle filler to transfer wine into bottles while leaving enough room for the cork—and how using a floor mounted bottle corker speeds up the bottling process. Enjoy!

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—Andy

Here’s Step 4 of my How to Make Wine Video series! In this fourth video I explain the process of filtering your wine. After allowing 4 to 5 weeks for the grape particles and ingredients to settle, the wine is almost crystal clear. But to completely polish the wine clarity, the wine is filtered before bottling.

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Here’s Step 3 of my How to Make Wine Video series! In this third video I explain how to check the specific gravity of your wine with a hydrometer to assure complete fermentation. I add potassium metabisulfate and potassium sorbate to the carboy and stir vigorously. These ingredients will help sterilize and protect against re-fermentation after bottling. A natural fining agent is also added to settle the must.

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Here’s Step 2 of my How to Make Wine Video series! In this second video I explain how to transfer your fermenting wine from a bucket and into a glass carboy with a siphon, also known as “racking” your wine.

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Step 1: Starting the process of making wine from a juice concentrate kit. Let me know what you think!

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