How To Make Prune Wine

Homemade Wine Recipe

Ingredients: Prune Wine

2 lb / 900 grams prunes
3 lb / 1,350 grams sugar
1/2 lb / 225 grams raisins
2 lemons
Campden tablets
Water up to 1 gallon
Yeast nutrient
Wine yeast

Method - What to Do

Place the prunes, chopped raisins and campden tablet in a container and add the cold water. Cover and leave for ten days, stirring and mashing the fruit daily. Place the sugar in a fermentation bucket and strain and pour the liquor over the sugar, stirring vigorously to dissolve the sugar. Add the lemon juice, yeast nutrient and wine yeast and cover and leave for three days in a warm place, stirring daily. Strain through a fine sieve 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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