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sweet Orange wine
by Sandra Claydon, Downley Wine Circle
10 oranges, peeled & crushed to extract the juice
boiled peel of 5 of the oranges
1 litre orange juice
12oz bananas
32oz sultanas
32oz light brown sugar
nutrient
pectolase
yeast: Gervin no.6, strain 8906 (or similar white wine yeast)
Campden tablet
Make a yeast starter with the orange juice
Liquidise sultanas & banana, add to crushed oranges, and boiled peel, add a Campden tablet and pectolase (in a fermenting bin).
After 2 hrs, add the yeast starter.
Pulp ferment for 2 days.
Strain into a DJ, top up with water and feed with dissolved sugar until fermentation ceases.
Rack and clear.
Sweeten to taste with white grape concentrate, to reach a final SG of about 1030-1040.
by Sandra Claydon, Downley Wine Circle
10 oranges, peeled & crushed to extract the juice
boiled peel of 5 of the oranges
1 litre orange juice
12oz bananas
32oz sultanas
32oz light brown sugar
nutrient
pectolase
yeast: Gervin no.6, strain 8906 (or similar white wine yeast)
Campden tablet
Make a yeast starter with the orange juice
Liquidise sultanas & banana, add to crushed oranges, and boiled peel, add a Campden tablet and pectolase (in a fermenting bin).
After 2 hrs, add the yeast starter.
Pulp ferment for 2 days.
Strain into a DJ, top up with water and feed with dissolved sugar until fermentation ceases.
Rack and clear.
Sweeten to taste with white grape concentrate, to reach a final SG of about 1030-1040.
