Steps for How to Make Wine with Concord Grapes
- 1). Bring the water and sugar to a boil in a large cooking kettle. Simultaneously, crush concord grapes in the primary fermentation container.
- 2). Crush the Campden tablet and add it, the water and sugar mixture, yeast nutrient and lemon juice to the crushed grapes. Let the mixture cool to room temperature.
- 3). Add wine yeast to the mixture; stir and cover. Let rest for seven days.
- 4). Fashion a straining bag from a white cotton shirt. Suspend the bag over the secondary fermentation container. Place the crushed grape mixture into the straining bag and allow the juice to drip into the container. Continue the process until the liquid ceases to drip from the bottom of the cloth.
- 5). Discard the residue and airlock the secondary fermentation container. Once a month for eight successive months, siphon the fermenting wine from its existing container into a clean, new one. Take care to catch and discard any residue in order to produce a clear liquid. This process is called racking.
- 6). After eight months, siphon the wine into sterilized bottles. Cap the bottles. Store in a wine rack and rotate the bottles monthly. Wine should be left to age from one to three years.
