Champagne is a type of carbonated wine.
Carbonated wine is known as sparkling wine. Champagne, while it has come to mean any type of sparkling wine, is technically a specific type of sparkling wine made in the French district of Champagne. These sparkling wines and champagnes are generally associated with festive celebrations like weddings. When making your own wine, you will eventually want to know carbonate it. While wine can be force carbonated in a keg or barrel, it is completely possible to carbonate wine in the bottle with nothing more than a little .
Instructions
1. Wait for your wine to clear after secondary fermentation stops. This usually takes between two to four weeks.
2. Prepare priming sugar by boiling 1/8 cup of corn sugar with 1/3 cup of water for each gallon of wine you have made. For example, two gallons of wine would require a 1/4 cup of sugar mixed with 2/3 cup of water and a six gallon batch would require 3/4 cups of mixed with 2 cups of water.
3. Pour the sugar solution into a bucket or carboy that will be used as a bottling vessel.
4. Siphon the wine into the bottling vessel. Keep the end of the siphon hose underneath the wine as it fills the vessel in order to thoroughly mix the solution into the wine. You may gently stir the wine with a long spoon in order to make sure the liquids are mixed.
5. Siphon the wine into sterilized bottles. Leave about half an inch of air space at the top of the bottle. Cork the bottle as you normally would and store them in a cool place. After two or three weeks, will be carbonated.
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