If you really appreciate red wines, then you have probably wondered about the process of how to make a nice dry red wine. There are a variety of red wines from a full-bodied sweet tasting red to a very dry red wine. Where red wine draws its flavor is from the skin color of black or purple colored grapes.



You will need a method for crushing the grapes, so you will need a grape crusher. The crusher is the equipment needed to very gently break the skins of the grapes. Depending on the amount of tannin that you wish to have in your red wine, you will determine if you want to include the stalks in the crushing stage.

A very important step to making a great tasting dry red wine is the fermentation process. This process can be like a work of art, as it can take many weeks to finish as the fermenting time is a direct relationship to the kind of red wine you are making and the desired flavor you wish to achieve. For a softer tasting red wine, the grapes should be sealed within the vat. Carbon dioxide becomes trapped in the sealed vat, causing the fermentation process to speed up considerably.

Fermenting the wine can be a slow process and is directly related to the flavor quality of the wine. The longer the fermenting process, usually means that the wine will hold more favor and color. What makes a dry red wine? A dry red wines, means that it contains very little residual sugar. Through the fermenting process, the sugar that is found naturally in the grapes have been converted into alcohol.

Next, you will want to put the remaining grapes into a wine press to be crushed to create a tannic wine. Sometimes wine makers will add a free run wine into the tannic wine to add more structure to the wine blend to ensure a drying tasting red wine.

Next, it is important to take the wine from the wine press and from the wine vat and mix them together. This blended wine adds more structure to the wine. Once the wines are blended together, you will need to do a second fermentation. The second time the process should be longer, as the processing time is needed to bring out the full flavor and quality of the wine. To get the dry red wine, you will need to continue to concentrate on reducing the sugar content of the grapes.

Red wines need to spend at least a minimum of one year in the wine barrel. This is not a process that should be rushed. Many excellent red wines spend several years in the barrels. A dry red wine is an excellent choice for having a longer stay in the wine barrels. You will need to add egg whites to the wine before it is filtered and bottled, as this is an important process for stopping yeast and other solids from forming.

Depending on the quality of your wine, you can now bottle and package your wine, or you may chose to continue to store your wine for a longer period of time until the wine is properly aged to perfection. The amount of time your wine will spend in the bottle is also important, but with a simple, delightful red wine, it is not necessary for red wine to spend a lot of time in the bottle to taste delicious. You can still have a dry red wine by reducing the sugar in the fermentation process. Keep in mind that the more complicated and complex the red wine the greater the need and benefit to allow your wine to age in the bottle to bring out both the fullness in flavor and color.