Homemade Wine Vinegar

[Sazerac]

Homemade Wine Vinegar is my new secret ingredient.

You won't believe how wonderful they are !

 

I used a drinkable but, not expensive wine.

First batch was a Merlot for red and a Pinot Grigio for white.

 

Pour wine into a v. clean mason jar, 

add  3 tablespoons of a good apple cider vinegar with 'the mother'  to each cup of wine.

Cover jar with cheesecloth and rubber band.

Let sit on your counter for 2 months or until it smells and tastes vinegar-y.

 

Strain and save the new 'mother' for your next batch.

Decant into a jar or bottle with a tight fitting plastic lid or cork.

 

This stuff in unbelievably good !  Salad dressings, a dash in soups or stews, for a reduction sauce....

 

 

[Rozuki]

Saz...what is the "mother"? I want to try and make this...thanks!

[Sazerac]

Hi Roz !  You are going to flip over this !

The 'mother' is the live yeast culture found in an organic unfiltered apple cider vinegar

like Bragg Apple Cider Vinegar,  You can find in a health food store, wholefoods, and online.

 

It has the 'mother' swirling around on the bottom.

Shake the Bragg gently before you measure into the wine.

Don't shake your mixture, you don't want to disturb the 'mother'.

 

After the incubation, when you strain and decant DON'T throw away the new 'mother'.

 You can now carefully, add more fresh wine to your original jar and start the process again.

  You have your own 'mother' now and don't need to add ACV anymore.

If you are careful, 'mother' lasts for years like the 'mother for sour dough.

 

I wanted to make up some batches of a red Remoulade for gifts

but, the red wine vinegars taste so ghastly...so I researched how to make it.

Now, I have 6 quarts going.  Bought better wine (and one champagne) for this batch too.

 

How long it takes varies.  Smell the jars, when it smells/tastes like vinegar, it is ready.

 

 

If you want Balsamic, you have to get a whisky or cognac cask and wait years.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 25, 2019 by Sazerac

[Rozuki]

I actually have a bottle of the Bragg AC vinegar on hand....I will go look at it to see the "Mother"! 

[Sazerac]

The 'mother' is collecting on the bottom, if you give it a gentle shake you should observe yeast particles swirling, bits of 'mother' so to speak.  lol.

 

Let me know, @Rozuki.  It is not likely that you poured off all the 'mother'.

[Sazerac]

When you decant, 'mother' will look like a somewhat firm jelly like thing, mine was a thin round 'thing'.  

[Reciprocity]

Ha,ha ...... I was thinking "Mother Ship". Guess not eh?

 

[Sazerac]

Well, @reciprocity, 'mothers' are living things, my new 'mother' looked v. strange like AI.

[MLMR]

Wow, will make this next weekend. Mother included.