Cherry Juice Wine

[Alan Clark]

So there I was last Friday waiting for a train at Oxford and my sister's partner came over and said M&S Food were selling 3lts of Cherry Juice for £5. Well all I was going to do was sit on a train for 3 hours so didn't exactly need to worry about lugging the cartons about so bought some. I started the wine on Saturday and it is going kind of mad at the moment.

Ingredients list.

3 Litres - Cherry Juice (M&S) (88g of Sugar per Lt)
1 Litre - Red Grape Juice (Aldi) (160g Sugar per Lt)
565g Granulated sugar dissolved into the grape juice
350ml of water (for making strong tea, 3 bags)

That lot comes out somewhere close to 4.75lts and 208g per Lt.

I added 1/2 tsp of nutrient, 1 tsp of Citric Acid and 1 tsp of pectolase.

On Saturday I only used the grape juice and 1 carton of Cherry, I added a second carton of cherry a couple of hours ago and will probably add the last one next week.

I'll see how that lot ends up in a few weeks time.

 

[winegirl]

I'm just about to do one myself ... how did yours turn out?

 

[LewisA]

I've been tempted to do one using picked cherries, anyone have any idea of the general taste?

 

[screamlead]

Yep works out fine i used 4kg napolean cherries. Turned out very nice.

 

[winegirl]

The smell of the cherries whilst mixing mine was heavenly ..... definately have a go at it. Good luck.

 

[winegirl]

Goodness me, I gave my cherry wine a good shaking on Saturday to liven it up a bit, covered it and now its almost "girating" inside the demijohn and bubbling like mad! Is that normal? :hmm:

 

[doodles]

I knocked up a cherry a couple of months ago. Was really lovely. Not sure how well it ages as it didn't last long enough for me to find out.