The fact that wine is most often made from grapes is no secret. But it turns out that this wonderful drink can be obtained by processing grape leaves. And the result will be no worse than the usual product.

RULES FOR PREPARING WINE FROM GRAPE LEAVES

If you decide to make your own wine from grape leaves, then you need to strictly follow the rules for its preparation so that the resulting drink does not disappoint you.

All stages of preparation are very important, and it is important to follow all stages of the production of this drink:

Font-size:18px;"> As you can see, following these tips is not difficult at all. And if you wish, at home you can make wonderful wine from grape leaves, which will delight you with a delicate aroma and a light apple flavor.

From the presented recipes you will learn how to make your own not only white wine, but also rose. You can also surprise your guests with wine from the Champagne region.

WINE RECIPES FROM GRAPE LEAVES

To make white wine, we need the following ingredients:

Font-size:18px;"> Now let's move on to preparing the wine. First, boil water and add grape leaves to it. Now remove the pan from the stove, wrap it in a blanket and leave for 72 hours. When three days have passed, you need to strain this liquid. Pour sugar and raisins into the product, cleared of leaves, and add a drop of ammonia. Stir the future wine well and wait another 10 days. During this time, the mixture will actively ferment and foam will appear on the surface. Don’t forget to taste the drink - it should be sweet (if the sweetness is not enough, then you need to add more sugar).

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When you see that the foam has disappeared, it’s time to pour the future wine along with the sediment into smaller containers (it’s better to take cans). When the fermentation process is complete, the liquid will become transparent and the sediment will settle to the bottom. Now you can pour the liquid into bottles (made of plastic) and release the accumulated gas from them every day. Then the wine needs to be poured from one container to another three times to get rid of sediment, and poured into glass bottles.

If you want your table to be decorated with a bottle of aromatic rose wine, then you need to add some raspberries to the recipe. When you leave the pot with the leaves for three days, mash some raspberries and let them ferment. Once you have strained the liquid from the leaves, add the fermented raspberries and continue with the recipe.

CHAMPAGNE FROM GRAPE LEAVES

Try making champagne from grape leaves. This recipe is not much more complicated, but the resulting drink is very similar to sparkling wine. For it we will need:

Font-size:18px;"> The cooking recipe absolutely coincides with the stages of white wine production. However, when you fill the bottles with wort, you need to put a kind of rubber barrier on the necks and make a couple of holes in it with a needle. After five days, making sure that there is no foam on the surface, add yeast or crushed grapes. When a month has passed, the wine is bottled and waited for about four more months.

Having prepared such an original homemade wine, you will be pleasantly surprised by its excellent taste and aroma.

Preparation of moonshine and alcohol for personal use
absolutely legal!

After the collapse of the USSR, the new government stopped the fight against moonshine. Criminal liability and fines were abolished, and the article banning the production of alcohol-containing products at home was removed from the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. To this day, there is not a single law that prohibits you and me from engaging in our favorite hobby - preparing alcohol at home. This is evidenced by the Federal Law of July 8, 1999 No. 143-FZ “On the administrative liability of legal entities (organizations) and individual entrepreneurs for offenses in the field of production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products” (Collected Legislation of the Russian Federation, 1999, No. 28 , art. 3476).

Extract from the Federal Law of the Russian Federation:

“The effect of this Federal Law does not apply to the activities of citizens (individuals) producing products containing ethyl alcohol for purposes other than sale.”

Moonshining in other countries:

In Kazakhstan in accordance with the Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Administrative Offenses dated January 30, 2001 N 155, the following liability is provided. Thus, according to Article 335 “Manufacture and sale of home-made alcoholic beverages”, illegal production of moonshine, chacha, mulberry vodka, mash and other alcoholic beverages for the purpose of sale, as well as the sale of these alcoholic beverages, entails a fine in the amount of thirty monthly calculation indices with confiscation of alcoholic beverages , apparatus, raw materials and equipment for their manufacture, as well as money and other valuables received from their sale. However, the law does not prohibit the preparation of alcohol for personal use.

In Ukraine and Belarus things are different. Articles No. 176 and No. 177 of the Code of Ukraine on Administrative Offenses provide for the imposition of fines in the amount of three to ten tax-free minimum wages for the production and storage of moonshine without the purpose of sale, for the storage of devices* for its production without the purpose of sale.

Article 12.43 repeats this information almost word for word. “Production or acquisition of strong alcoholic beverages (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), storage of apparatus for their production” in the Code of the Republic of Belarus on Administrative Offenses. Clause No. 1 states: “The production by individuals of strong alcoholic drinks (moonshine), semi-finished products for their production (mash), as well as the storage of devices* used for their production, will entail a warning or a fine of up to five basic units with confiscation of the specified drinks, semi-finished products and devices."

*You can still purchase moonshine stills for home use, since their second purpose is to distill water and obtain components for natural cosmetics and perfumes.

Where to start.

Update from 07.07.14
You need to start by reading the general principles:
Fruit and berry wine general principles

It is necessary to immediately attend to the container where fermentation will take place. You need to put at least 10 liters, because otherwise, the yield of the finished product will be very small, some will go away when pouring, some will spill, etc. I use 25 liter plastic containers for storing drinking water. Previously I used a 19 liter glass medical bottle. Naturally, I broke the bottle, and I can also say that it is extremely inconvenient to use due to the narrow neck.

There is an opinion that plastic spoils water/wine/must, this opinion is erroneous, because wine made from glass is no different from wine made from plastic, and this is a fact verified by experiment. Although I age my wine in glass - because it’s more beautiful!

Another myth is the use of a water seal. I believe that it is not needed at all, and I do not use it. During the fermentation process, especially its early stages, carbon dioxide is released. So this gas displaces everything, and the wort does not come into contact with the environment. In my 25-litre containers, I just screw the lid on loosely and that's it. After vigorous fermentation ends, the lid is screwed on tightly enough. The cap is periodically unscrewed to relieve pressure. But after fermentation is complete, you can’t yawn! You need to pour the young wine into containers where storage will take place, and here you need to seal it tightly. Although my experience shows that if the wine turns out good, it is drunk very quickly, and it doesn’t come to aging)))

The next important point is yeast. Only wine ones!!! No bakeries or beer bars. Without going into tediousness: wine yeast can be wild or cultivated. Wild ones are found in raisins, and cultivated ones are bought for money, for example here http://www.vinodelie.com/ingred.htm (bought, used - normal).
Sourdough with wild yeast is made like this. We take raisins, wash them, put them in a jar and fill them with water at room temperature, add sugar and mix the whole thing, then cover them with a cloth and forget about them for 3 days. After three days, the raisins are usually actively fermenting - the sourdough is ready! There are raisins that have been treated with something terrible, but such raisins do not want to ferment! I don’t know how to distinguish the right raisins from the wrong ones, so I won’t be able to get smart about this topic...

Recipe for raisin and hibiscus wine.
I want to say right away that you shouldn’t expect anything special from it, it will turn out to be a pleasant dessert wine.
You will need a 10 liter container. 1 kg of raisins, a handful of hibiscus, 3 kg of sugar.
Wash the raisins thoroughly. We pour it into a jar, pour 1 kg of sugar into it, fill it with water so that the sugar dissolves, close the jar with a cloth and put it in a warm place for 2-3 days. When the raisins begin to ferment (day 2), boil water in a saucepan, and when the water boils, add hibiscus. After the infusion has cooled to room temperature, and provided that the raisins are actively fermenting, strain the hibiscus infusion into a jar of raisins, add the rest of the sugar and mix everything until the sugar is completely dissolved, add water until the jar is full. Screw the lid loosely and place it in a dark place at room temperature. In general, that's all.

This whole thing will ferment for several months. When fermentation is over (bubbles stop forming), the wine must be carefully (without raising the sediment) into another container. For overflow I use a silicone hose. Next you need to wait for the wine to clear. This process is accompanied by sedimentation, and once every 10 days you need to pour the wine into another container. In general, 2-3 transfusions are enough when the cloudiness disappears from the wine.

The result is a pleasant drink with a small degree. I soured it a little more by adding tartaric acid. We put it in the refrigerator and drink a glass before eating)))

You can improve the drink by replacing sugar with honey and adding spices (I think ginger would fit in).

Although, to be honest, I expected a completely different taste from hibiscus, and overall I didn’t like the result...

Homemade wine from hibiscus tea, this invigorating drink made from Sudanese rose petals surprises even seasoned gourmets, and yet it is not difficult to make if you have a detailed recipe. Tart, sour hibiscus tea, sometimes called red tea, is made from hibiscus petals, which give the finished drink a rich ruby ​​color.

Recipe for making wine from hibiscus tea

Recipe:

• boiled, settled water – 3 liters;
• hibiscus tea – 50 grams;
• granulated sugar - half a kilo;
• black raisins - 1 cup;
• lemon zest – 50 grams;
• dry yeast – 10 grams.

Prepare the wine base:

• Place hibiscus tea in a suitable pan;
• pour boiling, pre-settled water;
• leave the base for 3 hours.

During this time, all extractive substances will pass from the petals directly into the infusion, which will cool down in the meantime and will have the required room temperature. After that:

• filter the resulting infusion, removing the petals from the liquid;
• add lemon zest;
• Add granulated sugar to the resulting dough;
• mix it thoroughly until completely dissolved;
• we put the future wine aside;
• pass unwashed raisins through a meat grinder;
• crushed raisins are also added to the future wine;
• All that remains is to add yeast to the solution;
• Pour the contents of the pan into a 10-liter glass bottle.

So, we have prepared the wine material, but before sending it for fermentation, it should be properly sealed. For this we use water seal, which can be purchased at any hardware store. As an emergency measure, you can use a latex glove with a hole previously made in the finger.

Now the future divine nectar must ferment. Since ready-made yeast is introduced into the wine material, fermentation processes will proceed quickly; fermentation will end in a week. Of course, to do this, the vessel with wine should be placed in a warm place. Upon completion of fermentation:

• drain the wine from the sediment, pouring it into a dry prepared container without touching the sediment;
• We seal the new container with a ground stopper;
• let's put it in a cool, dark place for a month and a half so that the wine matures;
• after a month and a half, the finished young wine is bottled;
• We place them in a cool place for permanent storage.

Delicious homemade wine from hibiscus tea - ready!