Strawberry wine: 6 recipes at home

Strawberry wine is a drink with a magical aroma and a delicate light pink color. English poets wrote about it back in the XVIII century, because once you taste strawberry wine, it is simply impossible not to fall in love with its taste and aroma.

Strawberries are also used for cooking: liqueurs, liqueurs , tinctures

Tips before you start

1. Garden and forest berries are suitable for wine.

2. Strawberries should be ripe and of good quality, but not overripe.

3. Strawberries need to be sorted out, remove the stalks, rotten, spoiled and moldy berries.

4. It is advisable not to wash the prepared strawberries before use, as it can wash away the natural yeast, which is essential for wine fermentation. If the berry is very dirty, you can rinse it lightly in water.

5. It is important to remember that garden strawberries are juicier and sweeter than wild strawberries and less sugar may be needed. The strength of the wine depends on the sugar level.

6. Strawberries have a high sugar content and a lot of sediment can fall out during the cooking process. You need to closely monitor all stages of preparation, and it may take a little longer than when making wine from fruit.

7. For wine, you need to take a capacious glass container.

8. Homemade wine will change its color from light pink to amber over time.

Table wine from wild strawberries

Ingredients

1. Wild strawberries - 9.5 kg

2. Granulated sugar - 1.25 kg

3. Water - 3.6 liters

The method of preparation

1. Strawberries must be carefully sorted, remove the stalks and spoiled berries.

2. The prepared berries do not need to be washed, but immediately crushed into the wine pulp.

3. Cooking simple sugar syrup and cool it down to 25 degrees.

4. Mix syrup and pulp in a saucepan, cover with cheesecloth for natural fermentation. Stir the contents of the container daily.

5. After the first foam appears, filter the juice through a purchased or homemade filter, and rub the pulp through a fine sieve into the wort.

6. Mix the prepared ingredients, pour into a glass container. Put the wort on fermentation at a temperature of 18-22 degrees for 2 months.

7. At the end of the fermentation process, carefully strain the young wine and pour it into glass bottles.

8. If the sediment appears again, then the wine must be filtered again.

9. Store the finished product in the basement.

Strong table wine from wild strawberries

Ingredients

1. Wild strawberries - 10.7 kg

2. Granulated sugar - 1.9 kg

3. Water - 2.4 liters

The method of preparation

1. Strawberries must be carefully sorted out, remove the stalks, spoiled berries and beat with a blender or pass through a meat grinder.

2. Divide the granulated sugar into two parts. One part of sugar should be dissolved in warm water and mixed with prepared berries. Leave the covered container for fermentation for 1-2 days in a warm place.

3. After the first foam appears, filter the juice through a purchased or homemade filter, and rub the pulp through a fine sieve into the wort.

4. Fill the glass bottle with the prepared wort by 2/3 and put a water seal or a clean glove with a small hole on the finger.

5. After 2 weeks, when active fermentation is over, add the rest of the sugar. For its better dissolution, it is necessary to pour 2 liters of wort and heat it to 30 degrees (at a higher temperature, wine yeast dies) and then dissolve granulated sugar in it.

6. Pour the sweetened wort back into the bottle, stir well again and put a water seal or a glove with a small hole in the finger until fermentation is complete.

7. At the end of the fermentation process, the wine will become transparent, then gently, without shaking, drain it from the sediment. Important! Do not leave the wine on the lees for more than 14 days, otherwise the yeast residue at the bottom of the container will make the finished product bitter. And if the wine has not become clear during these 2 weeks, it must be poured into a clean vessel and filtered after the sediment has fallen out.

8. Pour the finished strawberry wine into glass bottles and store in a cool place. Aged wine will change color and taste over time, but this will not affect the quality of the drink.

Strong wine from wild strawberries and garden strawberries

Ingredients

1. Wild strawberries - 4 kg

2. Strawberries - 10 kg

3. Granulated sugar - 3.2 kg

4. Sherry yeast - 2 g

5. Tannin - 20 g

6. Wine alcohol (70%) - 700 ml

The method of preparation

1. Put two berries under a press to get juice for further wine making. From this amount of strawberries and strawberries, at least 8 liters of juice should be obtained, if the strawberries are not juicy enough and the juice is less, then you need to add water (after boiling it and cooling it to 25 degrees).

2. Add half of the sugar to the resulting juice, mix until it is completely dissolved, pour the wort into a glass container and put a water seal or a clean glove with a small hole in the finger.

3. After 3-7 days, when the stage of quiet fermentation begins, add sherry yeast to the wort and mix thoroughly. Put back the water seal or a clean glove with a small hole in the finger.

4. After 3-4 months, when the wort is completely fermented, drain the wine from the sediment and add wine alcohol, tannin and the remaining sugar (the sweetness can be adjusted to taste).

5. It is advisable to store the finished wine in an oak barrel at a constant temperature of 12 degrees. If there is no barrel, then the wine can be stored in a glass container by throwing oak bark into it, after wrapping it in cheesecloth.

6. Before tasting, the wine should be aged for at least 10 months to allow the wine to fully develop its taste and aroma.

Dessert wine made from strawberries

Ingredients

1. Garden strawberries - 6.5 kg

2. Wild strawberries - 6.5 kg

3. Granulated sugar - 3.7 kg

4. Tannic acid - 14 g

The method of preparation

1. Put two berries under the press to get juice for further wine making. From the specified amount of berries, you should get about 8 liters of juice.

2. Pour 510 g of sugar into a separate container, and pour the rest into strawberry juice and mix well. Cover the container with gauze for natural fermentation.

3. After the first foam appears, filter the juice through a purchased or homemade filter, then add tannic acid and the remaining sugar. After thorough mixing, pour the wort into a glass container and put it on fermentation at a temperature of 18-22 degrees for 2 months.

4. At the end of the fermentation process, pour the young wine into glass bottles. If sediment appears, the wine must be filtered again.

5. Store the finished product in the basement.

Liqueur wine made from strawberries and raspberries

Ingredients

1. Wild strawberries - 5.5 kg

2. Raspberries - 5 kg

3. Tartaric acid - 43 g

4. Tannin - 30 g

5. Granulated sugar - 2.5 kg (±100 g)

The method of preparation

1. Strawberries and raspberries must be carefully sorted, remove the stalks and spoiled berries.

2. Pour 1/4 part of granulated sugar into the prepared berries, cover with cheesecloth and leave until fermentation begins.

3. After the first signs of fermentation appear, squeeze the juice under a press.

4. Add tartaric acid to the juice, pour it into a glass container and put a water seal or a clean glove with a small hole in the finger. Add 100 g of sugar per liter of wort every week.

5. After the wine has acquired a lighter shade, it must be filtered, then add the last part of the sugar, stir thoroughly and pour it into a sterile glass container.

6. Leave for 2 months at a temperature of 10-14 degrees.

P.S. If you want the wine to have a strawberry-caramel flavor, you need to make a classic one before aging sugar syrup (with the rest of the sugar), cool it and add it to the future wine.

Sparkling semi-sweet strawberry wine

Ingredients

1. Garden strawberries - 5 kg

2. Wild strawberries - 5 kg

3. Granulated sugar - 3 kg

4. Water - 2 liters

5. Sherry yeast - 2 g

The method of preparation

1. Strawberries must be carefully sorted, remove the stalks and spoiled berries. The prepared berries do not need to be washed, but immediately crushed into the wine pulp.

2. Add 2 kg of granulated sugar to the pulp, mix and leave to ferment in an enamel bowl, after covering the container with cheesecloth.

3. After the first signs of fermentation (foam and sour odor) appear, the juice must be drained, and the pulp must be grated through a sieve into the wort.

4. Add water to the wort and heat it to 35 degrees, mix it with juice and filter it through a purchased or homemade filter. Pour the wort into a glass container and put a water seal or a clean glove with a small hole in the finger.

5. After 3-7 days, when the stage of quiet fermentation begins, add sherry yeast to the wort and mix thoroughly. Put back the water seal or a clean glove with a small hole in the finger.

6. At the end of fermentation and after the wine has lightened, take special care to drain it from the sediment and filter it several times.

7. Pour a little wine, add the remaining sugar and heat it a little so that the sugar dissolves completely, then add it to the total mass and mix well.

8. Pour the strawberry wine into thick glass bottles (you can use champagne bottles), close the corks and fix them with wire.

9. For wine to turn into sparkling wine and for the yeast to ferment again, it must be aged for 2 days at a temperature of 22 degrees.

10. Sparkling strawberry wine should be stored horizontally at a temperature of 14 degrees.

Update: 21.10.2017

Category: Wine and Vermouth