Winemaking Recipes
A selection of tried and tested winemaking recipes.
Featured Recipe
Blueberry Wine
This recipe makes one imperial gallon. To make more than one gallon multiply everything except the yeast by the number of gallons you want to make. The yeast is enough to make up to five gallons.
8 cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)
1 cup of Wild Berry Red Grape Concentrate
4 cups granulated sugar.
1 1/2 tsps tartaric acid
1 tsp yeast nutrient
1/2 tsp yeast energizer
1/2 tsp. pectic enzyme powder.
Campden tablets
1/4 tsp tannin
Lalvin wine yeast.
TIP: Freeze fresh berries and thaw before using. This will give you better juice extraction.
Starting gravity should be 1.070 - 1.080 (after sugar is added)
For each gallon:
Crush the berries. Put the berries, pectic enzyme, 1 Campden
tablet and 1/2 gallon of cold water into a bucket. Stir and
cover. Let stand at room temperature for 48 hours stirring twice
a day. Strain liquid into a fermenter. Press the pulp to get
most of the juice then discard the pulp. Add the sugar to 1/2
gallon of warm water and stir to dissolve. Add the sugar solution,
acid, tannin, yeast nutrient, yeast energizer and Wild Berry
grape concentrate to the fermenter containing the blueberry
juice. Prepare the yeast as per package instructions and add
to fermenter. Cover and let ferment for 5 days at 20° - 25° Celsius then transfer to gallon jars or carboy topping up with
cooled pre-boiled water if necessary. Attach fermentation lock
making sure to half fill with water. Rack in 3 weeks and add
1 Campden tablet. Let stand under airlock for another 3 weeks.
If wine is clear and stable, add 1 Campden tablet per gal and
bottle. If not, let stand longer until clear (you may add finings
if you wish). If you want to sweeten, add Winemaster wine sweetener
& conditioner to taste. You can filter now if you wish.
Age 6 months for best wine but can be drank earlier.