HOW TO MAKE PERFECT WINES & SPIRITS Commercial Flavour FROM HOME
EXTRACT TUTORIAL
This chapter shows how easily wines the flavor of world famous liqueurs and other commercial products may be added with the minimum of utensils and labor; indeed, this is probably, if not decidedly, the simplest the least troublesome and the most rewarding of all adventures into wine-making.
In what are known as T’Noirot Extracts we have a readily prepared ingredient and, as will be seen in the recipes, no preparation is needed, the stuff is ready to use.
You might get a decent imported wine or British wine at seven and six a bottle, but you will never be able to buy wines with the flavour of these world-famous liqueurs at any price, and certainly not for thirty cents a bottle-all they will cost you to make. Nor will you ever buy Vermouth at less than fifty cents a bottle; the Vermouth recipe alone, then, must be worth a fortune to anybody who likes Vermouth.
When making these wines do please use good yeast and nutrient, for the results obtained in this way will surpass any you can hope to achieve by using bakers’ yeast and no nutrient.
It will be seen in the recipes that I have included invert sugar because this gives the best results here. Invert sugar contains a little acid and this is essential in wine-making as we have already seen. If you use household sugar, you will have to add the juice of one lemon or one-eighth ounce of citric acid to give just the tiny amount of acid required.
When adding the extract to the prepared syrup (sugar-water), make sure you get all of it out of the bottles.
When deciding which extract to use, you must first decide on which you are likely to prefer (unless you know in advance and from experience that you like Vermouth or Kirsh or cherry brandy) and then choose that one. In this way you will make a wine that might disappoint you-after all, not all tastes are the same.
VERY IMPORTANT: The method we shall be using calls for adding these very highly concentrated flavorings to a very small amount of liquid to begin with.
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