Wine Making
Acids, enzymes, finings, fruits, flowers, grains, nutrients and yeasts
for wine making at home.
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Fruits, Flowers & Grains
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Fruits, Flowers & Grains for Wine making.
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Acids & Deacidifiers
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Well balanced acidity in wine is good.
An under acidic (alkaline) wine will taste bland whilst an over acidic wine will taste sharp, like juice.
Attaining the correct acidity is key to great wine.
Do not forget the measuring tool here: pH strips.
Here is a comprehensive range of the acids & deacidifiers used in winemaking.
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Enzymes
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A range of starch and pectin destoying enzymes.
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Grape Concentrate
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Grape Concentrate adds body, flavour and vinosity when included as an ingredient in country wines.
It can also be used to make highly palatable wine in it's own right with the addition of sugar, pectolase, tannin, nutrient & the appropriate yeast.
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Nutrients
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Yeasts ferment sugars to produce alcohol but to do this they need some trace minerals which are present in grapes but not in most other ingredients.
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Wine Yeast - Connoisseur's Choice
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There are literally tens of thousands of different yeast strains in existence, about 70 of these strains account for most of the world's commercial wine production.
After years of research and experimenting, the Connoisseur's Choice range is the result of 3,000 individual fermentations, to find which strains worked best with which style of wine. -
Wine Yeast - Gervin
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Gervin yeasts - one of the best.
They have been selected from the active dried yeasts currently available to commercial winemakers, and exhaustively tested to ensure that they will perform well under the conditions used by amateur winemakers.
The use of the best yeast will bring out the best from the ingredients.
These branded yeasts are amongst the best in the World & are reliable to ensure your efforts are suitably rewarded. -
Wine Yeast - Lalvin
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Lallemand began producing oenological yeast for the wine industry in the early 1970's.
Since then, top-rated research institutes have collaborated with them to isolate and settle yeast strains naturally found in the best wine areas around the world.
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Wine Yeast - Others
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A selection of wine yeasts other than those in the Connoisseur's Choice, Gervin and Lalvin ranges.
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Wine Additives
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A range of additives which can be used to improve the overall flavour of home made wine.
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Wine Finings
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Wine Finings are used to speed up the rate at which a finished wine clears.
