Recipe: Make White Zinfandel Wine

In this video, we show you how we make White Zinfandel wine, from start to racking. In fact, we show you TWO ways to make it, one that is close to the Sutter Home version, and one that has a higher ABV% and more flavor.

You can also watch our video on bottling here, which is the last step:    • Bottling our Home-Made Wine  .

White Zinfandel is a refreshing, drinkable, and slightly sweet white (rosé) wine that's low in tannin since it does not spend much time fermenting on the grape skins and does not age in oak.

- - Contents of this video - - -
00:00 - Intro
00:54 - Fun Facts
05:21 - Robust Version vs Lighter (Sutter Home) Version
09:32 - Add the Concentrate
11:32 - Calculate the Sugar to Add
14:15 - Add the Pre-Fermentation Additives
16:29 - Measure the Initial Gravity
18:16 - Measure / Adjust the pH
21:54 - Hydrate / Pitch the Yeast
27:20 - Fermentation Completed!
31:01 - Rack It
34:47 - Add the Post-Fermentation Additives
36:37 - Re-Check the pH
43:43 - Cold Crash
43:57 - Re-Rack the Robust Version
45:03 - Re-Rack the Lighter Version
45:29 - Back-Sweetening
49:55 - We Taste the Robust Version
56:43 - We Taste (and Adjust) the Lighter Version

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