I'm sitting here at home having a glass of the red wine I bottled the other day and I'm thinking to myself, "if I was given this in a restaurant for something I had ordered, but didn't know the name, I would be happy". It really is quite good and smooth.
I make it in a 5 gallon (20 litres) plastic water bottle (the ones you turn upside down in a water cooler). The ingredients are as follows:
17 litre bottles of pure red grape juice,
650 grams of sugar,
1 packet (heaped teaspoon) of fine baker's yeast, (can't get wine yeast out here)
Stir it all together with a stick and put a condom on the top, at a slight angle.
After 1 day, the condom will be blown up and I put 2 or 3 holes in it with a tooth pick,
2 or 3 weeks later, the condom will be flat and I leave it for another week or 2.
Syphon with a plastic hose into flip top bottles with the rubber seal and that's it.
I could probably get 13 or 14 litres out of it, but I stop at 12, so I know I'm clear of the sediment.
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