When I made a sparkling wine, I went straight from primary to bottling. Easiest wine I ever made. Turned out decent enough for New Year's Eve a week and a half ago, but I wouldn't take it to a high society function. You absolutely MUST use the thicker champagne bottles or you'll have bottle bombs.
White Grape Sparkling Wine
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14 cans 12oz Winco Frozen White Grape Juice Concentrate
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Poured concentrate into primary bucket
Added 2 ½ gallons water
Hydrometer reading: 1.090 SG
Added 3 campden tablets
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Added 2½ tbsp pectic enzyme
Added Lalvin EC-1118 yeast
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Hydrometer reading: .990
Racked, very little sediment
Added 1 tbsp sparkolloid dissolved in 1 cup water
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Added 1½ cups sugar and bottled – 17 750ml bottles
Added ½ tsp pink “brew glitter” to 4 bottles
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Opened an un-glittered bottle and sampled.
Truly a ‘sparkling wine’.
Maybe a hair too much bottle pressure.
Very white-grapey flavor.
Acidity maybe off a bit?