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?
March 25th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Don’t quote my recipe cos I just did it on a wing and a prayer! Last Sept made two demi jons worth of victoria plums and just finally filled 8.75 bottles. In syphoning got a delicious mouthful of cloudy tan almost port like wine. Could do with measuring it’s alcohol. Would appreciate any advice on how long I should leave it now and anything I could do naturally to make it clearer?
June 30th, 2009 at 11:39 am
my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with ‘we leave it to you to decide’.
July 9th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Can you provide more information on this? I just find it contradicting to what I have read from other blogs.
August 13th, 2009 at 8:54 am
hi just done 4 gallons ov the stuff so i hope it iss nice and iff u have some more recipes let me now ow yer i put ginger and cloves in myn will that be ok or wot
September 13th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I have had a go at this… it was just what I was looking for - a very straightforward and simple method to produce some wine. This is my first year of making, and I’ve had a go with blackberries as well. My plums came from a friend’s tree (actually I think they are, strictly speaking, greengages) so this is inexpensive, and now am dying to find out how it tastes! I’ll try and pop back to add a comment about the results later in the year!
September 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 am
I made wine out of plums about a week ago, i would say that its not as nice as grape wine but it is nice still, i would recomend trying elderberry that is also nice.
Marcus
September 23rd, 2009 at 11:51 am
This might seem really naive but plums for wine who’d have thought it!
I always associate wine with grapes. Im a white wine drink myself but have started to experiment with red. I think plum wine is next on the list. Cant wait to taste some Mmmm