How To Make Celery Wine
Trim green and white stems into 3″/75mm lengths.
Place in celery into pan of water and boil till tender.
Strain celery juice into a sterile fermenting bin.
Add citric acid.
Fill bin to 5 litre level with slightly boiled water (still hot).
Add lemon juice.
Add sugar and stir to dissolve.
Leave to cool.
Add chopped sultans.
Now add yeast, yeast nutrient and tannin.
Loosley cover fermenting bin and move to warm position.
Leave to ferment (upto 2 weeks).
Siphon wine must into a sterile demijohn and fit bubbler.
When fermentation is complete rack wine into a clean demijohn.
Add a crushed Campden tablet to demijohn.
Rack regularly until wine is clear then bottle.
Celery wine is an all-year round wine recipe that produces a light white wine using the main the ingedient of celery, which is available all year round from your local supermarket or your local greengrocery store. This recipe can be ready to drink in around than 6 months and should make wine of a very high quality. The use of sultanas in this recipe gives the wine the much needed body which gives it such a good quality taste. This recipe is a clean recipe with no fruit to strain after initial fermentation as the boiled celery is drained before fermentation, and if you put the sultanas into a tied pourous bag, like a small laundry bag (I got one from our local cheap shop), it minimises the dross to remove.
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Initial fermentation time: 7 days
Time to be ready to drink: 6 months
4lb/1.8kg celery
8oz/230g sultanas
2 lemons (juice of)
3lb/1.4kg sugar
1 teaspoon tannin
Satchet activated dried wine yeast
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
1 teaspoon citric acid
1 Campden tablet
Sweetness: Dry
Calories per bottle: 400 approx
Yield: 6 bottles
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