White Wine from Concentrate

You will need

• White grape juice concentrate (no preservative)1 L
• Sugar500 g
• White wine yeast1 sachet
• Waterto 4.5 L

Method

1. 1

   Sanitise. Grape concentrate is just grape juice with the water taken out — add it back and you have a must, any time of year.

2. 2

   This wine's lesson is pitching the yeast well: sprinkle it over a small cup of warm (blood-temperature) water and leave it 10-15 minutes until creamy before adding it. Waking it up first gives a stronger, cleaner start.

3. 3

   Dilute the concentrate with cooled boiled water, stir in the sugar dissolved warm, and top to 4.5 L (reading ~1.080).

4. 4

   Add the woken yeast, fit the airlock.

5. 5

   Ferment out, rack, clear.

6. 6

   A clean, dependable white — the closest a country winemaker gets to a wine kit, and a good place to practise a clean pitch.