How to Make Muscadine Wine

Although I am a wine lover myself, I have to say that I grew fond of wine and never had the opportunity to explore that passion, in a wine festival showcasing different types of wine. How great is it to be a turophile, and have wine to go with it! Going to a wine festival is the highlight in any wine lover's life, who appreciates the art of turning simple fruit, into a glass of red/white swirling wonder. I look forward to going to my first wine tasting party, to end my year on a sweet (but kind of dry) note.

Muscadines in particular, or Vitis rotundifolia, are grapevines that take root in southeastern US, and has been cultivated for centuries. These delicious berries range in colors from dark purple and green to a bronzed hue, and is black when ripe. It is used for a variety of purposes, including in dessert like jelly. They thrive on settings of humidity and heat, and if not stored well, can lose out on richness and content.

Muscadine Wine Recipe

Here you'll find a recipe on how to make this wine, though be warned that this process requires patience of course during the fermentation stage. This recipe is meant for making about three liters of wine. Give three bottles a try first, before you move on to making more.

What You'll Need

• Potato masher
• 1 container to house 3 liters of wine
• Water
• Champagne wine yeast (1 packet)
• 3 kg of Muscadine grapes (Calories add up to 60 calories per cup)
• 1 pound of sugar

Method of Preparation

Crush the grapes in a large dish using the potato masher and let it sit on the gas on a low flame, for about 20 minutes. Keep pressing down on the grapes in order to release the maximum amount of juice as it reduces. It is advisable to do this by hand and not by blitzing it. Stir in the sugar, preferably powdered, continuously stirring it in as you add it into the mix. Then after you notice that the grapes have come down to a nice pulpy mix, turn the gas off and then pour the contents of the dish into the 3 liter container, adding water until it is about three-quarters towards the brim. Then mix in your champagne yeast. Quickly merge it all up before sealing it off from airborne bacteria. Seal it nice and tight so that no air escapes and then let it ferment for 30 - 50 days in a cool, but dry place. After this time period is up pour the wine into three individual bottles, a liter each, and seal it off again for another 30 days. Your wine should be ready to drink thereafter.

Muscadine Wine Brands

Muscadine wine brands have both white Muscadine wine, and red muscadine wine in the different types that are available worldwide. You'll come across the different wineries that hold within each bottle produced, a well put together concoction using one of the best grapes out there.

Wineries That Use Muscadine Grapes
Beachaven Vineyards & Winery	Chestnut Hill Winery	Beans Creek Winery
Cypress Bend Vineyards	Florida Orange Groves Winery	Lakeridge Winery and Vineyards
Beans Creek Winery	Childress Vineyards	Post Familie Vineyard and Winery
Log Cabin Winery Inc	Seabreeze Winery	Duplin Winery
Savannah Oaks Winery	Seavin Inc.	Apple Barn Winery
Crimson N Scarletts Vineyard	Enoch Winery, LLC	Mountain Valley Vineyards
Sanders Ridge Vineyard & Winery	Rocky River Vineyards	Georgia Wines Inc.

Wine making is a very archaic form of turning rich grapes into a drink that may seem simple to mimic at home, but is nothing close to the real thing done in wineries. There's a lot that goes into making wine. Storage is the key when storing the grapes before they're mashed. The longer a wine is allowed to mature, the better it will taste, is a well-known fact about wine. Why not stock up on wines to help it mature - it doesn't have to be a big fancy cellar. Just pick out a nice place where the atmosphere is constantly chilled, and dry - like a mini bar or nice glass paneled cabinet. Who knows when a moment will call for celebration, to open that much-anticipated bottle of wine. I'll drink to that.