Plum wine recipe
I was in Tescos a little while ago I walked past the reduced item shelves and there was a whole trolley full of reduced plums. They were reduced to something like 30p a punnet. Excellent I thought, so I filled my basket. I took me a little while to wash and sterilise the fruit and remove the stones. I ran them through the blender to reduce them to a pulp, and put them in the 2 gallon bucket I have. I added about 2 gallons of water and a bag of sugar, as you can see I didn’t carefully measure anything. I think in total there was 7 punnets of plums. I used some basic wine yeast that is widely available in supermarkets.
I actually didn’t rush, once it was sealed in the fermenter I left it for probably a month or 6 weeks. I transferred it to a couple of demi john the other day. Leaving behind all the pulp. The resulting wine is a lovely rose wine. I’ll leaving it for a while in the demi johns to clear, before I transfer it into the final bottles.
All in all for about £1.50 I have 2 gallons of superb rose wine, by Christmas the wine should have matured nicely. This is the real advantage with fruit wines, they get better with time. Definately worth keeping an eye on the supermarket shelves for some bargain fruit.
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September 4th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
hi talking about plum wine i did exactly the same as you but i added some rasins to add a bit of body .
the cheapest wine i have made as my plums cost nothing from my mates tree
roll on christmass for the tasting
October 17th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Hi i made a gallon from wild white plums(bullace),always make more than a gallon to allow for the pulp.Mine started its ferment on its own! This is my first year on making wine.Ive done cider for 3 years and beer on and off for 15.
November 13th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I’ve never had a plum wine but it sure sounds delicious. Would you say it has more of a sweet or sour taste in the wine?