Lingonberry wine: a classic recipe in a nutshell
Homemade lingonberry wine turns out to be quite sour, so it is often sweetened with sugar syrup at the finish. But, you shouldn't do this at first. Prepare, taste, and then decide whether you need it or not.
It is also made from lingonberries: liqueurs, tinctures
Ingredients
Ripe lingonberries - 1 kg for a 3-liter container or 8 kg for a 10-liter container
Sugar (optional) - 100-150 g per 1 kg of berries
The method of preparation
Sort the berries, removing stalks, leaves and rotten specimens.
Mash the prepared berries lightly with your hands. Put the resulting pulp and juice in a three- or ten-liter jar (in a three-liter jar - no more than 1 kg, and in a ten-liter jar - up to 8 kg of pulp), tie the neck with gauze.
If desired, you can add sugar to the pulp (100-150 g per 1 kg of berries). Put the jar in a warm place.
On the 2nd or 3rd day, when the pulp in the jar floats up, pour the juice that has been released in the lower part into another jar or bottle and close it with a water seal.
Keep the wort under the water seal until fermentation stops. After that, to clarify the wine, it is recommended to take the jar to a cold room and keep it under a water seal for another 30-50 days, after which, using a rubber tube, carefully drain the wine from the sediment.
Then the wine should be filtered, bottled, corked and stored in a cool place in a lying position. This wine is light and unsweetened, like a semi-dry wine.
As a bonus, make wine from the leftover pulp
The remaining pulp can be used to make another light wine. To do this, pour as much 30% sugar syrup into the jar with the pulp as the amount of wine that was drained, and then leave the mixture to ferment, covered with cheesecloth.
After 3-4 days, decant the liquid, and squeeze the pulp through cheesecloth in 4-5 layers, then pour everything into a jar and put it in a fermentation under a water seal.
After fermentation, remove the wine from the sediment with a rubber tube, bottle and cork.
Update: 06.08.2018
Category: Wine and Vermouth