Adding Chocolate to finished wine

[PAwinedude]

Sorry Dan,

I couldn't resist...thanks for the info

 

[dsoares1831]

Dan, Would you recommend adding chocolate will aging? Or only during the secondary fermentation process?

 

[Julie]

You can add during aging, just remember you will need to rack a couple of times before bottling.

 

[Runningwolf]

As Julie said you could add any time but I prefer during secondary. Again you'll need to rack several times.

 

[dsoares1831]

Julie, Dan, thank you very much, just curious though, why would I have to rack several times after adding chocolate during the aging process?

 

[Runningwolf]

Racking is just the normal process and not because of the chocolate necessarily.

 

[dsoares1831]

Thank you Dan for your reply, my red wine is now aging, I am looking forward to trying it. Sorry for the late reply! But thanks again!

 

[LoneTreeFarms]

bumping this one up. i made julie's candy cane wine in january and added chocolate in march. I just tried it last night and was alittle disappointed. the peppermint came out beautifully but i was hoping for alittle more chocolate taste to come through at the end. any recommendations for how to enhance this??

 

[Runningwolf]

You could add more chocolate. How much did you put in it and for how long. What size batch.

I have always found I added too much chocolate. I did not want to taste it right away up front but wanted to taste it as a secondary taste.

 

[djrockinsteve]

Chocolate extract. Not the crap from the grocery store but good high quality extract. I believe I paid $3.00 a bottle and they were very tiny bottles.

I added a few to my choc. choke cherry wine. Had a light choc. taste but good.

Can't recall the extract brand though. Search the Internet.

 

[tonyandkory]

I decided one day to try putting chocolate in a Malbec so I bought a chocolate bar and opened a bottle. then I put chocolate pieces in the bottle and re corked it and let it sit for a month.
Have not tried this one yet.

However I found these chocolates at a vintage candy store that were dark chocolate with cayenne pepper in little round balls.I decided why not try this also.
opened a bottle put in the pieces and re corked.

this was very good after a month.... Malbec with a dark rich chocolate after effect and you could catch the earth pepper smell on the back end just slightly.

I didn't rack off the pieces before hand. the 3rd and 4th glasses has nice little pieces of alcoholic candy chocolate in the glass lol

 

[LoneTreeFarms]

i used two bags of ghiardelli? choc chips to a 5 gallon batch of peppermint wine. I'll look into adding more chocolate or extract. question is...how much.. thanks

 

[barbl72]

I'm looking to add chocolate to my black raspberry wine that is already done - just hanging out in a gallon jug. Can I just add dark or semi-sweet according to the posts above and keep racking it/stirring it? How did everybody's wine turn out? I see the above posts are a couple of years old.
thanks!

 

[spunk]

Barb did you ever add the choc to your wine I have some cherry I was wondering if I could add choc to.

 

[barbl72]

Barb did you ever add the choc to your wine I have some cherry I was wondering if I could add choc to.

I added a piece of really good chocolate to one bottle - haven't drank it yet. We put some in a glass and tasted it all darned day. YUM! I will probably make the wine cloudy, but I don't know yet. Some put cocoa powder in at the beginning. I really don't know how to do it right.

 

[Julie]

Barb did you ever add the choc to your wine I have some cherry I was wondering if I could add choc to.

Get a chocolate that is at least, 65% cocoa, Something like Lindts, add it for 6 weeks and taste, keep it in longer if the chocolate taste isn't where you want it to be.

 

[spunk]

Ok thanks Julie o will try that

 

[spunk]

I will try that I mean

 

[spunk]

I bought Lindt 70% smooth and 85% extra dark. Both 3.5 oz bars I thought I would try both for two different bottles. I'm going to do this in a wine bottle. How much of the choc should I use for one bottle?

 

[spunk]

I added two squares to one bottle of finished cherry wine topped with bung and airlock. It seems to be bubbling now. Is it fermenting again or co2? What to do?