Making Wine

Ethanol can be made from many liquids that contain sugar, such as sugar cane juice. The ethanol content will be primarily determined by the sugar content of the sugar cane juice. The yeast you'll...

Wine makers commonly use white grapes to make wine at home. Vitis labrusca is a popular species of white grape in the United States and is the source of most white grape juice. These grapes are...

The common fig (Ficus carica) is most often eaten as dried fruit and rarely used fresh. It's not very sweet, so a true fig wine requires a great deal of additional sugar for the fig juice to...

Niagara grapes are a variety of Vitis labrusca, a well-known North American species white grape. They are most commonly found in Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington. Niagara...

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented grape juice. The alcohol content of wine isn't concentrated through distillation and is primarily determined by the sugar content of the grape...

True wine is made only from grape juice, and alcoholic beverages made from other fruits are properly called "country wine" or "fruit wine." In common usage, however, the term "wine" frequently...