Rosehip wine: 3 recipes at home

Rosehip is a common and undemanding culture. You can often see how many bushes go unclaimed closer to winter. We propose to correct this situation and prepare an unusual wine from rose hips. And you can use both fresh and dried/frozen berries.

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Classic recipe for rosehip wine

Ingredients

1. Fresh rose hips - 3 kg (dried - 2 kg)

2. Sugar - 3 kg

3. Water - 10 liters

4. Unwashed raisins (fresh grapes) - 100 g

The method of preparation

1. Crush the fruits with a wooden rolling pin. If using dried berries, cut in half. The seeds do not have to be removed.

2. Prepare sugar syrup (2 liters of water + 2 kg of sugar) and cool it down to below 30 ° C.

3. Add rose hips, sugar syrup, the rest of the water (8 liters), crushed unwashed grapes or raisins to a wide-mouthed container. The last ingredient contains the wild yeast needed for fermentation.

4. Stir and tie the neck with cheesecloth. Then put the container in a dark, warm (18-25°C) place for 3-4 days. Stirring once a day.

5. When signs of fermentation appear (foam, hissing, sour odor), pour the mixture into the fermentation tank (fill it to a maximum of 2/3 of the volume) and install a water seal.

6. Now you need to put the bottle in a dark place at 18-29°C. During the fermentation period it is very important to maintain a stable temperature.

7. After 7 days, filter the wort through cheesecloth to separate the mash (solid part). In the fermented juice, add the remaining sugar (1 kg) and reattach the water seal.

8. After 4-6 weeks, the water seal will stop bubbling (the glove will deflate), sediment will appear at the bottom, and the wine itself will become noticeably lighter. This means that the active fermentation is over.

9. If fermentation does not stop 50 days after the start of cooking, in order to avoid bitterness, the wine should be drained from the sediment through a tube and put to fermentation under a water seal or glove under the same conditions.

10. Pour the fermented young rose hip wine through a tube into another clean container. It is important not to touch the sediment on the bottom. If desired, add more sugar to taste or fix with vodka (alcohol) in the amount of 2-15% of the volume.

11. Fill storage containers to the top so that there is no contact with oxygen. Close tightly with a lid (or install a water seal), transfer to a cool, dark (5-16°C) place for aging.

12. After 2-3 months, drain the wine from the sediment into prepared bottles, then seal with corks.

13. Store in the refrigerator or cellar. Shelf life: up to 2 years if the temperature is kept at 10-16°C.

Recipe for wine made from frozen rose hips

Ingredients

1. Frozen rose hips - 2 kg

2. Sugar syrup - 4 л

The method of preparation

1. Peel, wash, and place the rose hips that have been frozen, in a bottle, pour warm sugar syrup over them, cover with a fermenting cork, and leave for about 3-4 weeks.

2. Then drain, strain, bottle and put in a cool place to mature for about 6 months. The longer the wine stands, the tastier it will be.

3. Ingredients! The remaining rose hips, from which the infusion has already been drained, can be used to make another wine. To do this, pour it again with the same amount of syrup as the first time, but less sweet.

Recipe for wine from dried rose hips

Ingredients

1. Whole dried rose hips - 1 kg (or 500 g crushed)

2. Sugar - 1 kg of sugar

3. Water - 3 liters of water

The method of preparation

1. Place the prepared rose hips in a bottle and pour over a sugar solution. To prevent the fruit from floating, place gauze at the base of the neck.

2. Close the bottle with gauze and keep in a cool place. After the cessation of rapid fermentation, strain the wine, filter through cotton wool or a coarse cloth, pour into a clean and dry bottle so as not to touch the sediment.

3. In conclusion, I would like to add that if you were looking for a recipe for rosehip wine, but did not find anything worthwhile - it's not just that. After all, rose hips do not have any outstanding characteristics to make any wine from them.

4. Instead, we recommend making wine from the petals tea rose.

Update: 01.08.2018

Category: Wine and Vermouth