February 03, 2017

ASK ADAM: CAN I MAKE SPARKLING WINE WITH MY SODA STREAM?

 It won’t really become the same thing. Sparkling wine is made via a secondary fermentation into a sealed tank or bottle. During fermentation, the byproduct of yeast-eating sugar is alcohol and CO2. When initial fermentation occurs in tanks, the CO2 has the ability to escape, but after the wine is vinified, if a bit more yeast and sugar are added to the party and that wine is placed in a sealed vessel, the CO2 has nowhere to escape to, so it absorbs back into the wine and you get carbonation.