Make Moscato Wine with Muscat Grapes (whole fruit wine recipe)
We constantly see things in the store and think, “Can we make mead or wine with that?”. We also would love to be able to make all the varietals of wine from the grapes, and every once in a while… we find one. This time it was muscat grapes, so…. MOSCATO!
The Muscat family of grapes includes over 200 grape varieties belonging to the Vitis vinifera species that have been used in wine production and as raisin and table grapes around the globe for many centuries. Their colors range from white (such as Muscat Ottonel), to yellow (Moscato Giallo), to pink (Moscato Rosa del Trentino) to near black (Muscat Hamburg). Muscat grapes and wines almost always have a pronounced floral aroma. The breadth and number of varieties of Muscat suggest that it is perhaps the oldest domesticated grape variety, and there are theories that most families within the Vitis vinifera grape variety are descended from the Muscat variety.
Ingredients
5 lbs (2.27 kg) Muscat Grapes
1/2 package 71B Yeast: https://amzn.to/4bsbC6N
1 lb (0.45 kg) Sugar
Water to 1 US Gallon (3.785 liters)
Additions
1 teaspoon Sparkalloid (mixed in a little bit of heated water): https://amzn.to/3WbU62f
3/4 teaspoon Acid Blend: https://amzn.to/3yPSLFa
Back Sweeten with Sugar as desired (we went to a Specific Gravity reading of 1.006)
Tools We Use
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