What Is Organic Wine? A Guide to Organic Wine Making Process

Organic wine is wine created from grapes grown in line with organic farming's guiding principles, which forgoes the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides, and herbicides.

How to make organic wine at home?

There are several organic wine making practices that are available, here is one of the easiest organic wine making process at home.

Materials required for organic wine production:

• At least 10 cups of fruits

• 1 packet of yeast

• 2 cups of honey

• Filtered water

Organic wine making process:

1. Select the kind of fruit you want to make wine from - grapes and berries are the most chosen ones. Ensure those are organically produced.

2. Wash the fruits thoroughly and pick out the stems and leaves. Keep the clean fruits in a crock.

3. Crush and squeeze the fruit to release its juices using a clean potato masher or your hands. Repeat this process until the fruit juice level is only 1 12 inches (3.8 cm) below the crock's top. Add filtered water to the top of the crock if you don't have enough fruit and juice to fill it almost all the way. 

4. Usually sulfur dioxide tablets are used to kill wild yeast and bacteria but since this is organic wine, as an alternative to tablets pour a cup or two of boiling filtered water.

5. In addition to sweetening your wine, honey feeds the yeast. You can directly influence how sweet your wine is by adjusting the amount of honey you use. More honey can be added if you prefer your wine sweeter. Put a cap on your honey at 2 cups if you don't want it as sweet. You should also consider the type of fruit you are utilizing. It is not necessary to add a lot of honey to grape wine because grapes have a lot of sugar. Berries and other fruits with less sugar will require a little bit extra honey.

6. Add the yeast and mix it well.

7. Store the crock overnight under cover. Use a cover that will keep insects out while allowing air to enter and leave the crock. Use a crock lid made specifically for this purpose or drape a piece of clothing over the opening and fasten it with a sizable rubber band. Place the covered crock in a warm location overnight that's around 70 degrees.

8. The next day, uncover the mixture, give it a good stir, and then recover. The first day, stir about every 4 hours; the following three days, stir a couple times daily. As the yeast gets to work, the mixture ought to start bubbling. The fermenting process that produces great wine begins here.

9. It's time to filter off the particles and siphon the liquid into your carboy for longer-term storage once the bubbling calms down, which usually happens three days after it starts. After siphoning the wine into the carboy, secure the airlock to the aperture to allow gas to escape while preventing oxygen from entering and tainting the wine.

10. Now the wine must be left to age for at least one month or more if possible in bottles.

What is the major difference between organic wine and non-organic wine?

Chemicals such as fungicides and herbicides are used in the vines and additives such as sulfur or Mega Purple are used in the wine which are known as non-organic wines while for these chemicals are not u

sed in the vineyard where grapes are grown or in the gardens where fruits are grown for organic wine making process.

Benefits of organic wine:

• Has so sulfur content.

• The natural microbiome is maintained with no GMO.

• Doesn't contain synthetic additives.

• The natural taste of the fermented fruit remains genuine.

FAQs

Q. Apart from grapes what other fruits can be used for organic wine production?

Ans. Fruits like berries and apples are used in organic wine making practices.

Q. Can any grapes be used in organic wine making?

Ans. As long as the grapes are certified as organic it can be used in organic wine making process.