Homemade yellow plum wine

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make wine from yellow plum? The main ingredient in this recipe is plums. They should be ripe, but without visible damage.

2. Step 2:

   

   Do not wash the plums in any case, because the plaque that is present on the fruits contains a huge amount of bacteria necessary for fermentation. Remove the seeds from the plums and cut them into halves. Fruits cannot be used with stones - such a wine can even be dangerous.

3. Step 3:

   

   Grind the plums into a pulp in any convenient way. I used an immersion blender.

4. Step 4:

   

   But you can skip the plums through a meat grinder or, if you have very ripe fruits, just grind them with a mash.

5. Step 5:

   

   Put the plum puree into a fermentation tank.

6. Step 6:

   

   Since plum fruit is not very juicy, and does not emit much moisture, water is always added when making wine from plums. Pour water into the plum puree. Lovers of tart and spicy drinks can add a cinnamon stick, clove buds, a star of star anise, thyme, oregano, currant twigs to the fermentation tank - all this is quite acceptable and appropriate.

7. Step 7:

   

   Mix, cover tightly with gauze and put away in a dark place for 5 days. Stir occasionally.

9. Step 8:

   

   After the specified time, strain through several layers of gauze or several times through a sieve. Pour the resulting liquid into the fermentation tank again.

10. Step 9:

    

    Add half the sugar. Adjust the amount of sugar to your liking. I have a wine of medium sweetness, so there is not much sugar in principle.

11. Step 10:

    

    Put a glove on top and put it back in a dark place. The glove will inflate first, then deflate. It's been 20 days to this point for me.

12. Step 11:

    

    Strain again, trying not to touch the turbidity from the bottom of the jar, add the remaining sugar and repeat the procedure again with a glove. Wait for it to deflate again. All the dregs will remain at the bottom again, the wine will lighten much and become more transparent. This time it's been 16 days for me. If you want to get an even lighter and more transparent wine, repeat the procedure with the glove again, but in this case divide the amount of sugar into 3 fermentation approaches.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour the wine into bottles and seal. The wine from the plums will be fully aged and ready after 1-2 years, but the young wine can be drunk after 4-6 months.

14. Step 13:

    

    The strength of this wine is about 15 degrees. Observe the measure when drinking alcohol!