Ever thought about making your own wine? Finding a unique bargain wine can be tricky, but making it can be fun and rewarding. Below are just a few recipes to get you started making some of the best bargain wines you will ever taste and experience some nice sweet wine flavors:
1. BLACKBERRY WINE RECIPE (Port Style):
4lb. blackberries, 4lb. sugar (or 5lb. invert), 7pts. water, port yeast, nutrient.
2. BLACKBERRY AND ELDERBERRY WINE RECIPE (Port Style):
2 1/2lb. elderberries, 2 1/2lb. blackberries, 7pts. water, 3 1/2lb. sugar (or 4lb. invert), port yeast, nutrient.
*Ferment the pulp after crushing and mixing together.
3. BLACKBERRY WINE RECIPE (Burgundy Style):
4-5lb. blackberries, 3 3/8lb. sugar (or 4lb. invert), burgundy yeast, nutrient, 7pts water.
4. BLACKBERRY WINE RECIPE (Beaujolais Style):
4 1/2lb. blackberries, 2 1/2lb. sugar (or 3lb. 2oz. invert), burgundy yeast, nutrient, 7pts. water.
The produces a dry wine.
PREP METHOD:
Crush the sweet wine fruit by hand in a polythene pail and pour on one quart of boiled water that has cooled. Mix well. Crush one campden tablet and dissolve the power in about half an egg cupful of warm water and mix this with the fruit pulp.
Leave the mixture for one or two hours. A little bleaching will take place but this is nothing to worry about. After this, take one-third of the sugar to be used (or approximately one-third) and boil this for one minute in three pints of water.
Allow this syrup to cool and then stir into the pulp. Then add the yeast (or nucleus) and ferment for seven days. After seven days, strain the pulp through fine muslin or other similar material and wring out as dry as you can. Put the strained wine into a gallon jar and throw the pulp away. Then boil another one-third of the sugar in one pint of water for one minute and when this has cooled add it to the rest. Plug the neck of the jar with cotton wool or fit a fermentation lock and continue to ferment in a warm place for a further ten days.
At this stage, if you have not a spare jar, pour the wine into a polythene pail leaving as much of the deposit in the jar as you can. Clean out the jar, sterilize it and return the wine to this. The remaining one-third of the sugar may now be boiled for one minute in the remaining pint of water. When this has cooled, add it to the rest. Refit the lock or plug the neck of the jar with fresh cotton wool. After this, your sweet wine should be left in a warm place until all fermentation has ceased. Once its done, enjoy one of the best bargain wines you can experience!
NOTE: If there is not quite enough space for all of this last lot of syrup, put the remainder in a sterilized screw-top bottle and store for a few days in a cool place. This may be added when fermentation has reduced the level of the liquid in the jar. If you have to do this, don’t forget to refit the lock.
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