How to Make Sweet Wines
If you want to serve wine with dessert, but don't want to buy an expensive dessert wine, you can make any wine sweeter yourself. Regular table sugar, honey, corn syrup or rice syrup are commonly used to sweeten wine. Corn syrup is a good choice for white wine or any delicately flavored wine. Rice syrup gives a slight minty quality to the wine and works with a more robust red wine. Honey works well with wines made from other fruits, such as apples or raspberries. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Wine to be sweetened Sugar, honey, corn syrup or rice syrup Potassium sorbate
Instructions
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Pour wine into glass or plastic pitcher.
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Add sugar or sweetener of choice. Start with a small amount, about 2 to 3 tbsp. Stir well to mix. Taste wine. If not yet sweet enough, add more sweetener until wine is as sweet as you desire.
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Add potassium sorbate. Add 1/16 tsp. of potassium sorbate for each quart of wine you want to sweeten. This prevents the wine from fermenting a second time due to the addition of more sugar.
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Tips & Warnings
Sweetening finished wine solely to increase the alcohol content can be dangerous. In order for more alcohol to be produced, the wine must sit in the bottle and be allowed to ferment a second time. As the wine ferments, carbon dioxide is produced and may cause the bottle to explode.
