May 2010

Happy New Year!!!!
As far as we are concerned this is the new year, a new fruit season approaches!

There are still no 'fruits' available due to the cold winter, but the weather has been clement of recent and we are expecting a bumper year of wine making.

Due to excitement we cannot wait for the fruit season and so we are going to make 3 different wines, the first is our classic red which has already been mentioned in a previous blog (4l Red Grape juice pure, 1.5lb sugar1tsp yeast 1tsp yeast nutrient).

Apple Pear Passion Fruit Wine


We fancied something different from the usual wine and fruit is the order of the day! So to start with we are making Apple Pear and Mango Wine, with 1 litre of white grape juice to add body.

Recipe:

• 2 litres of Tropicana Apple Pear and Passion Fruit Juice (Pure premium)
• 1 litre of White Grape Juice
• 2 lb of Sugar to make up for the lack of the 4th litre of juice
• Top up with water to make up enough to fill the demi-john
• 1 tsp yeast, 1 tsp yeast nutrient

As usual wait for about 4 weeks before racking off!

Tea Wine


We wanted to make Oak leaf wine but again due to the cold winter and possibly a lack of patience the Oak leaves are not ready (read as out yet), so to satisfy the need to make more wine (drink more when the last supply runs out) we have decided to make Tea wine. Our good friend Cossi swears that this is the most difficult wine to get right, but as yet we have not made a bad wine... so here goes:

Recipe:

• 8 x PG Tips Tea Bags
• Sauce pan of water heat it up with tea bags in
• Add 2 lbs Sugar
• Allow to cool
• Pour in demi john
• Add 1tsp yeast, 1 tsp yeast nutirent
• Top up with cold water to fill demi john
• Wait for 4 weeks maybe more, rack off and drink when you patience runs out or when you need more wine because your stock has run out.

Update on previous wines

Red grape juice wine from any carton makes a very fruity, incredibly drinkable red wine, it has maintained warmth through the winter. Despite Cossi believing this to be an sacrilegious act against wine making, it has sustained us through the cold winter months. As wines go as far as we have made so far this stuff is right up there.

Here is to a new wine making season, I predict a fruit famine due to all the wine we will be making.