Sparkling Wine

[dmcoates]

I have been toying with the idea of making a sparkling wine. All the info i have found online suggests using a champagne yeast and bottle conditioning.

I make a Strawberry/Mango wine that i think would be great as a sparkling wine.

So my question is could this wine be made like normal then just forced carbed in the keg like beer. Then bottled with the beer gun. I dont see any reason that it would not work. Not sure how many Vols to carb it to. I was thinking around 3.2 or so. Then i have never tried to bottle beer thats been carbed over 3 Vol.

Does anyone out there do this?

 

[Azurecybe]

My understanding is that if you go much over 3 volumes then you should use champagne bottles (stopper/cork and cages) which are meant to hold higher pressures. Regular beer bottles can't take the pressure and may explode.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Sparkling wine must be carbed well above 3.2. Some hefeweizens are carbed to 5 vol.