How To Make Cherry Wine
Add cherries to fermenting bucket.
Boil 2 pints/1 litre water.
Pour boiling water over the cherries.
Mash cherries with potato masher or wait for water to cool and mash by hand.
Make up mixture to 3.5 litres.
Leave to stand for 3 days.
Now sieve must through a bag into a sterile fermenting bucket.
Make a sugar syrup with 2 pints/1 litre of water.
Add syrup to fermenting bucket.
Add juice of lemons.
Add dried activated wine yeast.
Add yeast nutrient.
Top up to just above neck of demijohn.
Fit bung airlock and bubbler and ferment to completion.
Rack into clean demijohn.
Fit bung airlock and bubbler.
When clear bottle.
Sample after 10 months or more.
Boil 2 pints/1 litre water.
Pour boiling water over the cherries.
Mash cherries with potato masher or wait for water to cool and mash by hand.
Make up mixture to 3.5 litres.
Leave to stand for 3 days.
Now sieve must through a bag into a sterile fermenting bucket.
Make a sugar syrup with 2 pints/1 litre of water.
Add syrup to fermenting bucket.
Add juice of lemons.
Add dried activated wine yeast.
Add yeast nutrient.
Top up to just above neck of demijohn.
Fit bung airlock and bubbler and ferment to completion.
Rack into clean demijohn.
Fit bung airlock and bubbler.
When clear bottle.
Sample after 10 months or more.
Cherry wine with this recipe is an alternative to Port and suits being drunk after a meal as you would witha Madeira or Port. By using equal amounts of cherries and sugar you can make this wine. If you use commercially grown cherries you may need to reduce the sugar.
Preparation time: 40 minutes
Initial fermentation time: 7 days
Time to be ready to drink: 6 months
3lb 4oz/1.5kg cherries (ripe with stalks removed)
3lb 4oz/1.5kg sugar
2 lemons (juice of)
1 heaped activated wine yeast
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient
Sweetness: Dry
Calories per bottle: 400 approx
Yield: 6 bottles
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