Wine Recipes

Wine Recipes

Black Cherry Wine Recipe
This is another simple wine recipe that makes a pretty darn good cherry wine. With cherry wines it is best to use fresh cherries, however at certain times of the year and in certain locations coming across fresh cherries can be difficult. If that is the case for you frozen cherries will work just fine. If you use frozen cherries make sure that they are whole frozen cherries, not mashed or crushed, and make sure that they are not preserved in any kind of syrup

Ingredients
6 pounds of cherries
4.5 pounds of sugar
1 Gallon of Water
1 Ounce of Yeast

Take the cherries (stalks removed) and crush them into a pulp, but keep the seed intact. Bring the gallon of water to a boil and pour it over the cherries. Let this mixture soak for approximately 48 hours. Once the cherries have finished soaking strain them through fine muslin and put the cherry juice through a jelly-bag. Sit the juice aside for a moment and add the sugar to your fermenting jug. Now pour the strained juice over the sugar and stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved. Allow it to cool. Now simply stir in the yeast, seal up the fermenting jug and let the mixture sit for about 14 days and then go ahead and bottle it up. If you have a turkey baster you can taste the wine prior to bottling it to see if you want to let it ferment longer.