Homemade Muscadine Wine

[ChickenLeg]

Picked about 13 gallons of muscadines with the family last weekend, roughly 70 pounds. It was enough to make 4 gallons of white muscadine wine, and 5 gallons of red (added a few pounds of whites to the reds). Used an old apple press my dad had to juice them. Got them started in new sterilized trashcans. Gotta rack em in the carboys this week and go from there. Just wanted to keep a thread of my progress

 

[sourland]

Good luck in the fermentation - great helper.

 

[ChickenLeg]

Thanks been years since weve made any so hoping it goes smoothly. My picker seemed to eat more outta the buckets than he put in

 

[ChickenLeg]

Got a good 12 gallons racked up last night and a smaller jug cut with some water to top it off.

 

[WIchickMama]

Yum! I loved in AR for awhile back in my youthful days, muscadine wine was a favorite that you cant find here in the north!

 

[ChickenLeg]

Yum! I loved in AR for awhile back in my youthful days, muscadine wine was a favorite that you cant find here in the north!

I live over in West Tennessee, plentiful here.! It even grows wild! Alotta my northern friends, shoot even some of my southern friends have never heard of muscadine wine its good!

 

[Dandichook]

Very cool!! How's it going now?

I've got a gallon of scuppernong wine sitting in secondary right now. It's a fun hobby!

 

[ChickenLeg]

Very cool!! How's it going now?

I've got a gallon of scuppernong wine sitting in secondary right now. It's a fun hobby!

I believe thats the variety of whites we have we just always called em bronze muscadines, they were huge though and pressed alot easier than the reds! Theyve cleared up a lot, about to rerack them tomorrow! Heres a pic from a week and a half ago when I put them up on counter

 

[U_Stormcrow]

Curious - Muscadine are native to my property, and I've planted a few of my own. How old are your vines, and how many do you have that you ccould pull 70 +/- pounds of grapes?

 

[ChickenLeg]

6.5gal red
4 gal white
3/4gal rose

Took about whours but we got em done. Found a guy nearby who is selling brand new wine bottles for $4 a case of 12. So Ima be set, just gotta buy some corks