Recipe. Elderflower Blush Quick (white and red grape juices)

This is pretty much an exact copy of the previous wine, only this time the only grape juice is used. It's fermented on the lees of the previous brew. So saving you a sachet of yeast and washing up.

Recipe: 5 Gallons

5 Litres Red Grape Juice (Vitafit)

5 Litres White Grape Juice (Rio D'Oro)

3 Kg Sugar

5 Teaspoons Pectolase

3 Teaspoons Yeast Nutrient (Tronozymol)

4.5 Teaspoons Citric Acid

1.5 Teaspoons Tartaric Acid

Yeast (GV5, lees from previous must)

2 Loosely Packed Bags of Defrosted Elderflowers.

OG 1081

Method:

As previous wine.

Discussion:

The only things to say about this wine are -

The gravity was a little higher than the previous brews, so it will come out stronger.

As only grape juice was used i changed the ratio of acids. The main acid in grapes is tartaric, so i upped the proportion of citric acid a little to add a little lemon like flavour.

I picked enough flowers for 3 batches of wine last time i went elderflower foraging. And froze 2 batches worth. I've never tried it before, but couldn't see why it shouldn't work. I bagged them up in muslin straight from the freezer cos i didn't know if they would become a soggy mess if i let them defrost before bagging. Then waited a while for them to come up to room temperature before adding them to the secondary fermentation vessel.

clicky here for a comparison of this year's elderflower wines, all 4 of them.