Wine from cherry

In every major store today you can find any wines: sweet, semi-sweet, dry and fortified, white, red, all sorts of words. But, despite this rich choice, some prefer homemade wine.

It is prepared from various types of raw materials, in this article I will tell you how to make wine from a cherry.

If you want to get a decent product, do not forget one important rule - for the preparation of wine you must choose only the best and quality fruits. Do not save on raw materials, then the wine from cherry will delight you with its aroma and tart taste.

As I have repeatedly had to make sure - every wine owner with the same set of ingredients is not the same as the others. Differences in the recipe, selection of raw materials, leaven and other minor at first glance, the details change the taste of wine at the output. So I'll tell you how, in my opinion, everything needs to be done, but follow these tips or choose other ways, decide for yourself.

So, let's start preparing the wine from the cherry with the preparation of raw materials and sourdough. For a drink from any fruit, these operations are identical. Cherry can be substandard, curve, shallow, but it must be healthy, ripe and not rotten. You should carefully sort out the raw materials and remove all the unfit fruit.

If the cherry is ready, it should be transferred. If there is a special wine press - it's great if you can not use a juicer, or even push your feet to the music, like in the movie "The Taming of the Shrew." The juice can be used for its intended purpose, for conservation, and the remaining cherry mass (mezga) is suitable for use as raw materials, we will prepare the wine from cherry just using the pulp.

With the ferment is a little more difficult, the best one is that which is used in industry. Such leaven is grown on wine yeast in the laboratory, but it's difficult to get it. So let's try to prepare a quality starter for cherry wine at home.

Take care of its preparation should be about two weeks before the day that you charted yourself for squeezing fruit. I usually use raspberries for leaven. It is necessary to collect a pure berry and without washing (not to wash off bacteria from it), to put it into practice. That's why I do not advise you to pick raspberries after the rain. Grapes will also be a good source of starter, but it does not grow everywhere. If you buy it, try to take our, not imported, stuffed with a variety of chemistry to the eyeballs.

Now the process itself, we take a capacious jar and pour a glass of water into it, cover half a cup of sugar and a couple of glasses of crushed berries. Stirring the liquid as it should, tie the neck of the can of gauze in several layers and put it in a dark place. After four days, you need to stir and strain the contents of the can through gauze. The juice you will fade is the leaven.

For wine from cherry leaves 200-300 grams of leaven for every ten liters. I make one leaven a year, and if after the first batch I plan to lay the second, then instead of the starter I use the residue from the first batch. In this case, for every ten liters of wine, one hundred grams of sludge is required.

Now that we have both raw materials and leaven, we will begin the main process. Wine from cherries can be made in tesyotlitrovyh banks, some try to use plastic containers, but I would not recommend it for wine. In the jar we put 5 liters of pulp left after pressing, pour it with two liters of water and dilute it all with a syrup made from a half kilogram of sugar dissolved in three liters of water. We will tie the neck of the jar with gauze and give 4 days to wander in the warmth, by the end of the fourth day the whole suspension will settle to the bottom, now it is necessary to put a water seal on the cans and you can not touch them for 4-5 weeks.

After this period, it will be necessary to carefully drain the juice, squeeze the pulp and drain the juice that was squeezed out of it, then both juices merge together and are again bottled with the water seal installed. After 5 weeks, you can pour the finished wine from cans into bottles.

Now that you already know how to properly make wine from cherry, it remains to wish you success in this not simple but honorable affair.