Simple homemade cherry plum wine

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 120 day

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make simple homemade wine from cherry plum? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. You can take cherry plum of any color. If you take red cherry plum, the wine will turn out to be a beautiful burgundy shade. And yellow cherry plum will make white wine. Or you can, as I did, mix red and yellow. Sort through the cherry plums and remove the spoiled ones. Wash the remaining whole fruits in running water.

2. STEP 2

   

   Take two 3 liter jars. If there is a larger jar, you can take it. Fill the jars with cherry plum a little short of the shoulders.

3. STEP 3

   

   Pre-cook the invert syrup and cool it. Pour it over the cherry plum. To prepare invert syrup, mix sugar and water in a saucepan. Place the pan on the stove and bring to a boil, stirring until all the sugar dissolves. Reduce the heat to low and continue to simmer the syrup for about 30 minutes. Cover the pan with a lid. Place a drop of syrup on a plate; if it does not spread, it is ready.

4. STEP 4

   

   Add water until it reaches the hangers, secure the gauze on top and leave the jar under the gauze until fermentation begins. Bubbles will tell us about the start of fermentation.

5. STEP 5

   

   Put a glove on the jar as fermentation begins. Make punctures in one or more fingers with a needle to release excess gas. It is advisable to secure the glove itself well with an elastic band or tape, otherwise it may be torn off the jar. Leave the jar to ferment.

6. STEP 6

   

   The glove will first rise and inflate due to active fermentation. When the wine ferments, the glove deflates and falls down. This means it’s time to strain the cherry plum.

7. STEP 7

   

   Strain the liquid through several layers of gauze. Squeeze the cherry plum.

8. STEP 8

   

   Pour the strained liquid into a clean jar, put on the glove with a small hole again and leave to ferment until the sediment separates. Then strain again through cheesecloth, or with cotton wool. Pour the wine into bottles, close the lids and leave to infuse for at least 2-3 weeks. The longer, the tastier it will be. Observe moderation when drinking alcohol!

Comments on the recipe

Ira

14.09.2023

5

Valeria, how deliciously the wine is consumed by the taster in the video, it looks like a super wine! One, two... and the alcophan has a beautiful grill. Thank you very much for the recipe!

Antonina Belozerova

14.09.2023

4.7

Good afternoon. I did everything as in the recipe, filled it with syrup, placed it in the yard, where it’s warm and sunny, but all the cherry plums began to rot. Why did this happen? In your video, everything seems to be fine.