Home made wines

[BumbleB]

Unusual Wine?

What have you made wine from? and how good was it?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Wines wot I have made

Celery - revolting
Jerusalem Artichoke - ok, with predictable wind factor!
Pea pod - ok, earthy tasting
Orange & mango juice wine from carton - not as good as expected
black cherry from kit - not keen, tastes chemically

redcurrant - really fruity, yum!
parsnip - delicious, like a chardonny
rhubarb - really delicious, like a rose

Grapefruit - don't know, maturing in the bottles
gooseberry & rhubarb - don't know, still clearing (taking forever!)
Apple wine - don't know, still fermenting

[BumbleB]

Anyone tried cherry tomato wine?

[Scunny Zeb]

Brambles
Elderberries
Strawberries
Oranges
Sloes
Plums
Rhubarb
Parsnips
Rose Petals
Elderflower
Kiwi Fruit
Lychees
Pumkin
Rose Hips
Pears
Birch Sap
Raspberries
Blueberries
Cranberries
Fruit flavoured Tea Bags
Christmas Pudding
Grapefruit
Mango
Gorse Flowers
Tinned fruit

to name a few

I'm a member of a couple of wine circles and enter compertitions

[Hazel at the Hill]

Brambles
......
to name a few

I'm a member of a couple of wine circles and enter compertitions

Nice one, SC - do you have favourite?

[janeyo]

Dandelion - not ready til xmas but the bit we did taste we added lemonade to and was just like Martini & lemonade!

[Scunny Zeb]

Nice one, SC - do you have favourite?

Lychee .....makes a nice white (Won a good few prizes)
Bramble and Elderberry.......nice port style wine
Rhubarb and Elder flower... nice light German style
Christmas Pudding......sweet desert style

[Mac]

Got my first ever batch on the go - raspberry, the first taste I had the other night when topping up the DJ's was loverly! Looking forward to when it' "finished"! Going to try the ribena recipe from CJJ's book this weekend!

[Hazel at the Hill]

..... Going to try the ribena recipe from CJJ's book this weekend!

Make sure that you are using the same sort of ribena (concentrate) that CJJ uses - I'm willing to bet that the sugar content of ribena has been reduced over the years, which might play havoc with the batch ...

I'd check the SG when you add the yeast to make sure it's high enough, and add extra sugar if necessary

[Mac]

Thanks for the advice again Hazel, will definately remember to check the SG at the beginning this time! The raspberry is down t 1.000 now and tasting pretty winey!

[burnie]

Anyone tried cherry tomato wine?

I made some tomato wine following the recipe from "Drink your own garden",it was described as a pleasant rose,mine wasn't, you could put it on your chips,but you couldn't drink it.

[burnie]

Brambles
Gorse Flowers
Tinned fruit

to name a few

I'm a member of a couple of wine circles and enter compertitions

I love the smell of Gorse,does the wine have a coconutty bouquet?

[BumbleB]

I made some tomato wine following the recipe from "Drink your own garden",it was described as a pleasant rose,mine wasn't, you could put it on your chips,but you couldn't drink it.

Lol, will not try that one then!

[Scunny Zeb]

I love the smell of Gorse,does the wine have a coconutty bouquet?

To be honest I've only made it the once and I think the bouquet was blown off with the fermentation process.
Next season I think I'll try adding a cupful of the flowers at the end of fermentation and let the alcohol extract the bouquet.

[janeyo]

Lychee .....makes a nice white (Won a good few prizes)
Bramble and Elderberry.......nice port style wine
Rhubarb and Elder flower... nice light German style
Christmas Pudding......sweet desert style

What kind of lychees did you use? I like the idea of this one. Tinned or fresh?
Thanks