How To Make Medlar Wine

Homemade Wine Recipe

Ingredients: Medlar Wine

8 lb / 3,600 grams Medlars
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar
Pectin enzyme
Water up to 1 gallon
1/2 pint strong black tea
Campden tablet
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast

Method - What to Do

Place the ripe fruit in a fermentation bucket and pour over the boiling water. Add 1 lb. of sugar and an equal quantity of cold water. Add the campden tablet, pectin enzyme and yeast nutrient and wine yeast. Cover and leave for three days in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain through a fine sieve and add the rest of the sugar and put into a demijohn and fit an airlock to seal the jar.

Store in a warm place and allow the fermentation to work. When fermentation has ceased, rack the wine into a clean jar and place in a cooler environment and leave. When the wine is clear and stable siphon into bottles.

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