How To Make Muscadine Wine. Start to Finish 

By far the best wine making video ever. I think i could make wine now. Thank you Shane and Kim.

Just started a batch of wild muscadine wine. About to add the yeast around 2000 hrs. Getting around 15% because of the wife lol. Definitely appreciate the video. Wasn’t sure about the prep. on the grapes themselves. So thank you for sharing!

A plain, unlabeled bottle is half the beauty of homemade wine to me.

So freaking excited to try this!! I have a muscadine grapevine that I used to make muscadine jelly every year. I’m super pumped to try the wine! Thanks for such an informative step-by-step video tutorial!

❤ here's what I do with that little bit of wine and lees: I have a tall and thin iced tea pitcher that I pour all of the lees into. It settles in a day or two and we enjoy a glass of new wine. Then dump the lees into the compost. Love your videos, thank you!

Best home wine making video I’ve seen by far. Great job! So informative, yet simple to follow. Only needed to watch it once. Thanks for sharing 👍🏾

Awesome tutorial! Thanks for taking the time to film and share. I think I can do this!

Just finished my first batch and TOTALLY pleased with the outcome! Thanks for the guidance!

I’ve watched this video about 5x so far…I love how detailed it is! I completed my first batch of muscadine wine a week ago and it was awesome!!! I’m already working on my next batch. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

I do mead and I'll share the two tricks to racking it. With mead, leaving it in the carboy for 12 weeks seems to be the magic time for perfect fermentation - no need to mess with buckets - water and honey straight in, mix with a clean wooden dowl, give the tablets 24 hours to kill any wild yeast/bugs and then add the yeast and chems - no need for nutrients or blooming the yeast first - I use a 5 gallon carboy. After twelve weeks, take a tablespoon of bentonite clay - powdered and food grade - add to four ounces of water, stir/shake until you've got a slurry and then dump it in - replace the carboy and wait 24 hours. You now have crystal clear mead with no flavor contamination from the clay and no loss of color - that's the first trick. Now what about those last two inches with all of the sediment? Grab your pasta pot, put the wife's colander on it, line it with regular paper towels (four layers works for the two-ply) and then start pouring it off - the paper towels catch most of the sediment but you'll still have a gray mead in the pot. Siphon it into a clean 1.75 liter glass liquor bottle then cap and put to the side - give it a few days until clear and settled - then you can carefully pour off the clean mead and now you're only wasting a few ounces of liquid versus what looks to be 2-3 pints in that 3 gallon carboy and nearly 4 pints for my 5 gallon.

My mom use to make this stuff out of an antique glass container she said use to hold acid back in the telegraph days lol Muscadine wine.. Peach Brandy... I miss her wines and Brandys

Over the years I have tried my hand at making wine and have never has success. You have rekindled my desire to try again. Thank you so much. Your video is great.

Very nice video. Clear, concise, and complete. Exactly what I needed. Thank you.

Your video is sooo informative! We are watching it again…..for the 85th time! We’re making scuppernong and purple muscadine wine (2 different batches) and have followed your instructions to a T!! We’ve started a muscadine vineyard in North Florida ! Thanks for letting us hang out on You Tube with you!

Just finished our first batch and it turned out pretty good. We now have more close friends than we know what to do with. I am working on a second batch for a few months down the road. Thanks for the Video.

This was awesome Shane. This is my first time actually seeing someone made Wine on RU-vid. You did an awesome job on breaking everything down and not making it seem overwhelming 👌🏾👌🏾

Just finished muscadine wine, and orange wine, using this recipe. Started apple wine today. Thank you so much ,for sharing your knowledge. ~Amanda

Hey Shane, great video. My wife and I started Isons muscadines two years ago we have our first harvest this year. Wine is on our mind, so thanks for sharing.

Loved this video! Like the start to finish approach. My wife and I started making our own wine in Jamaica 🇯🇲 early this year. With all the wild fruit trees available here for picking we’ve had great fun at it. Again, we really enjoyed your video and appreciate the time, patience and work that you and your camera girl put into it. Big up yourself!

Man, I was hoping you might come out with a video on making wine. I couldn’t find any good ones. Thanks! Awesome video!!

I am fixing to make muscadine wine for the first time ever. I had to find an alternative to the Camden tablets as everyone was sold out! Even Amazon had to postpone my shipment by three weeks! So I found a brewery supply company and let me tell you! The owner was working hard to sell me everything! Fussed at me for not “washing “ my stuff with commercial cleaner, had me buy a testing jar and a hydrometer and Ph test strips. I told her that the video I watched didn’t involve all of this! And she said well you’re taking a chance that your wine is going to explode when it goes into bottles and all this other stuff. I finally told her listen, I’m not wanting to spend a whole lot more money than what I’ve already spent. I’m not looking to make commercial wine, everybody makes wine differently and bought my $30 worth of stuff and walked out lol so I’m praying this wine comes out delicious following your recipe!! Sondra (I am using my son’s RU-vid account as well!)

This is an amazing video! I will be making my first batch this fall!

“I hate throwing anything away, especially my wine” Lol!! Exactly😂😂

After fermentation you need to be careful exposing must to oxygen. While transferring to the 3 gallon carboy you want to make sure you’re not splashing it to introduce oxygen. Keep end of hose under the surface of the liquid. And also eliminate the headspace in the carboy. Should only be about an inch headspace at the top.

Excellent video Shane!!! My mother used to make elderbery wine with a gallon glass jug with a balloon on top with a small hole it for the air lock. Rick

hello, ive been making wine for two years now,your videos are very helpful! thanks Brian

I purchase so much wine to the point where now I’m like you need to start making your own. Thank you so much. This was super helpful!!

Great video! I love the way you made it so easy to follow. Now I have to try this.

Awesome video! Truly. Really love your approach, not just to brewing, but explaining or relaying information. I just racked 60L of a really big bold, dark red grape wine off of 100kg of Hamburger as we call it...but it's actually Black Hamburg muscat grape. And for the end of the year and the brewing season I've just started slightly over 10L, basically ~ 11L of dark cherry mead from the frozen cherries I had left over from the summer. Again, love the channel, happy the youtube algorithm finally recommended it to me...I just subscribed! 👍

Very nice video. I was very interested in your experience with Ison grapes. Last year I made a 5 gallon batch of white wine from Ison’s then back sweetened to ‘Moscato’ sweet and it was good. I just started a 5 gallon batch of white and 15 gallon batch of red using Ison’s. Thanks for the video, it really helps!

great video, thanks! We have one Noble muscadine plant, I will try to make wine this year. I got a kit with a one gallon bottle and bucket from Amazon. there is a wine making supply store here if I need anything else, but your video shows the process...

Truly enjoyed watching this video. Thanks for posting.

I really appreciate this video. We have an abundance of muscadines this year and are going to try our hands at making our own wine. This was a great step by step - I appreciate the links your wife added, and I am excited to try what would have been much more intimidating without your video.

Common sense step by step process.. Well done.. I discovered a couple huge loaded muscadine vines on our property. I can do this! Thank you..

I just got 1/2 bushel of Muscadine's today and have everything else on hand. I will be starting a batch this week. Excellent video for a basic homemade wine.

Hi Shane & kim i loved watching your video cant wait to try it for myself Thanks again & God bless.

Glad you simplified this process. Keep hearing about all kind of gadgets you need to check this or that. Think I'm gonna give it a shot

Such a good video! I've started my first batch and I really wish I would have found this FIRST!! I have watched about 5x and made notes. LOL. I love all the amazon help. I love all the details. Thank you for sharing.

Used this video to start our own batch of muscadine/concord blend tonight. Thank you! I'll let you know how it turns out

Loved your video. Very thorough and to the point.. i forward to using your video to make wine

Isn't it Crazy how easy it is to make Wine . Great Job 👏. JO JO IN VT 💕😄

Yes i like your presentation. I've always wanted to make my own wine. I like the steps you have shown me on how to do it. THANK YOU SIR for the lesson👍👍

This'll be my first time making muscadine wine from your video I usually do it another way but I really like your way better so hope it turns out right and I will let you know thank you for the video awesome job

Loved the video thanks 👍🤩

He sure is fancy, I've never used anything but fruit, sugar, and a slice of bread for the yeast, always turned out good tasting with a strong kick ")

Really informative and clear video! Thank you. Time to pick the muscadines here in north Alabama now.

I don't recall seeing where the Camden tablets were added again at the end, did I miss it, when do I add? I asked for & received a wine making kit for Christmas, but the instructions were very scientific, I was worried I wouldn't be able to do this. I absolutely love y'alls video, definitely simplified this process for me. We picked muscadines over the weekend and just started ours....I'm sooo excited and now more confident! Thanks so much!

A little disappointed that you weren't foot stomping the grapes but I'll get over it. LOL 😄 Nice job and thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed this. Seems like a lot of time saved with minimal crushing

Interesting process. I would love to start doing my own wine in the future. Not ready yet! Thanks for sharing

What a great and simple video... Thanks guys... gonna give it a go now

I wish next time you would put in the comments, step-by-step written instructions so we don’t have to keep listening to the video half a dozen times trying to figure out the steps lol

Awesome job! You might have to hide from Sheriff Rasco P. Coltrane, though. lol Thanks for sharing this with us.

Absolutely amazing video. So informative. Just moved to north Florida from crazy tampa bay for the Tranquility and homestead lifestyle. Wine making is on the list. Muscadines already have fruit on them. Going to be fun!!!!!

This video is fantastic!!!! I cant wait to try making some!

Fantastic video, love the way you do it all along.

Great video!! Going to start making wine, just got my kit and chemicals. Great details on how to do it.

I really enjoyed the video. Great job. I do have a few questions. First, after removing the sediment, what did you clean the carboy with? Second, the syphon tube and the bottles, how did you sterilize them? Lastly, if you were going to gift someone with a bottle, how long after bottling would you wait?

I need a couple years to go by now so I can make mine! Lol! Great informative vid!

First batch done. Second batch I'm trying just a small, one-gallon batch and basically just boiling some fresh ginger in the water I used.

Thanks. Y’all are awesome.

LoVe making Muscadine Wine. I had my own grapes back on my NC Homestead. Still make wine in 5 gal batches out of whatever I can find now that I have downsized. Best regards. 💜💜💜 AuntieEllen

Such a great and enjoyable video.

Dump the carboy in a mason jar and put it in your fridge. After a couple of days you can pour off the good wine into a glass and drink it instead of wasting it.

Great video! Now my wife wants to make pineapple wine. You made it easy for a beginner to understand how to get started.

I just had some muscadine wine made by a guy in Alabama. It is really sweet and I suspect very low alcohol. I had three glasses and felt nothing. But it is tasty.

Thank you so much for the video. loved it.

Shane that was a great detailed video. I’ve tried making muscadine wine one time before and it didn’t turn out good. Your video has me in the mood to try it again.

Best video on line thanks so much

Wonderful wine 🍷 making video. It looks delicious. Thanks for sharing 😇

When you first add the sugar to the. water in the glass, before adding in the yeast, is that 1 tablespoon of sugar? Or 1 teaspoon? Stirred into about 1/3 cup of hot water? Thanks! These videos are just wonderful! I can’t wait to start my muscadine wine!

Very awesome video!!! Thank you!!!

Enjoyed so much

That is amazing how you did that I really enjoyed this video I'm not a wine drinker but I would love to try your wine Good job my friend

Great video. It helper me alot.

Very informative video

I love ec118 I've made some damm strong and good tasting meads with it.

Informative video. It looks like fun.

Good Morning Shane. Thanks for reply. I live out close to Villa Rica NW part of State. Will be trying Your recipe to the T ,only difference will be using Sccuppernongs,seeing how My Supreme & Ison Vine did not do Well & found a trick that works well to keep the Deer away from My Scuppernongs. Want to touch on why I use a Perservative Potassium Sorbate @ a very small amount 1/4 tsp. at bottling .I take a qt of same fruit & run it through a countertop Juicer+ the Sugar Syrup like You & add @ bottling, because was not getting that exceptional Muscadine taste that both of us go crazy about HaHaHa! . Seeing the way You make Your Wine I can see how You get more Flavor. I add the Perservative to keep from refermentation, does not seem to effect taste of Wine. Cheers! Kay

Hey , one thing you can do with the inch or so of clear wine sitting over the yeast cake in the secondary is to carefully pour it off into a mason jar and stop when the sediment starts to flow into the jar. Put that in the fridge with the lid on to "cold crash" it. After a day or even a few hours sometimes, you can careful pour that into a glass and Drink it!

Good tutorial vid

You said at the beginning you use the campden tablets at the beginning and at the end. You didn’t catch it in the video where you use them at the end. When do I do that? I am already at the final racking of my 7 gallons of scuppernong wine. It’s going great and it taste awesome.

amazing video you laid it out very simple for someone who is new trying to get into making wine! I was curious though, what’s roughly the ABV of a finished wine?

Hey Shane Can you give any bottled juice making tips and recipes. Thanks

Great video SoilBrotha! My husband tried to make wine but... 🤣🤣 So I'm taking notes to get this right! Thanks for sharing 🍷

Great video - where can I find a list of things I need to buy from Amazon you mentioned in the video? Thanks

HI, Love ❤️ Your recipe Cannot wait to try!. The minute You said Ison Muscadines I knew I was at the right place. Fellow Georgian Here. Several Questions about making the Wine, will have to e-mail later, but most importantly after fermentation finished & reracking to remove setament & your ready to bottle. I noticed you sweeten Your wine again. Will that not cause the Wine to Ferment again without adding a persevere ? thank You for reply.Kay

I'm going to make so.e as soon as I get my items ordered!

ENJOYED.

Muscadine is THE BEST!

Great video. I needed this. When you are racking the wine, do you rinse the carboy when it’s empty? If yes, do you sanitize it again?

Awesome video. What about the campden tablets at the end? Not sure I caught that step at the end of the video? Do you add campden after final settling right before sweetening or bottling?

The camden tablets do not kill off anything, it just changes the environment, so the fermentation process takes place differently. The bacteria come from within as the grapes breakdown. Whatever the bacteria consume is what determines the end product. Germ theory is a crock of bull. The terrain determines the end product. Great video. Can't wait to make my first batch.

We made our wine by your recipe and we were on the 2nd day of fermenting and its bubbling away!

Plz make a video of white wine using only 2kg grapes. All the ingredients and measurements and all details... Loved your video... Love from NEPAL🇳🇵

Great video. Appreciate all the links. Surprised you didn't use any bentonite clay in the final racking. What variety of muscadines do you grow? Love the shrink-wrapping technique.

Thank you. This is a great video.

I usually make 5 gallon batches....my solution to the headspace problem is to make an extra gallon, and after primary I have the 5 gallon and a 1 gallon. I'll then use the gallon to top up the big carboy after racking....with a little left over for a taste...lol. If you're not to fussed about drinking unfinished wine then, after you've topped up the large carboy, you can bottle the rest into beer bottles, and pasteurize to stop fermentation...a couple weeks and you can enjoy a young, but clear sample. Yes pasteurization can mess with taste a bit, but it's a waste not want not situation, so who cares?

In case I missed it, what is the advanced using two smaller buckets instead of one large one to do primary fermentation? Thanks

Love the video it made me try it I am in the process of letting it sit in the carboy for a couple week’s letting it finish fermenting. I have a question though I used concords instead of muscadines and I have this type of purple gunk on the very bottom of my carboy I’ve followed every step in your process would you have some information on what that is or what I can do. Thank you!