Orange Wine Recipe Help

[alanywiseman.]

I bought a bag of seville oranges a wee while ago and froze them. I intended to turn them into marmalade but, as I am almost at bottling stage for my first WOW, I wanted to try and turn them into an orange wine (hoping that it will have quite a orange taste).

I saw a recipe a while back that used 5 seville oranges and 5 sweet oranges per gallon but cant find it. So I was going to go with the above quantities with the use additions of pectalase, sugar, yeast nutrient and yeast.

The question was should I slice the oranges and soak them in about 2kg sugar and 1-2L of water for 24 hour the strain into DJs or would I be better to only use the peel and the juice?

Grateful for any advice :thumb:

 

[pittsy]

hi i havent made any wine but with ginger beer you use the lot so i guess its the same ,also i would maybe slice the oranges up and pop into some heated water and dissolve the sugar into it then cool and then add yeast but as i said i havent made wine but seems to me it would be the same as making ginger beer which i would do as mentioned :thumb:

 

[bobsbeer]

Squeeze the oranges to get the juice. To get more orange flavour you could use the zest. Put that in a pan with the sugar and some water to disolve the sugar and release the orange oil. Place the disolved sugar in the fermenter with the juice and don't forget the grape juice. Then just follow the WOW recipe. If using fresh oranges you may need to adjust the sugar content depending on the sugar content of the oranges. As an estimate go with 11% of the fresh weight. Take an SG reading and then adjust.