13.75 kg plums 4 L water 3 kg sugar Mangrove Jacks MA33 yeast 5 tsp pectinase 22g wine yeast nutriant 2 yeast activator tablets 3 campden tablets 3/4 tsp tannin powder 12/1/20 11.3 kg of fruit from big tree. Most of this had been picked for quite a few days and getting a bit soft. …
Category: Wine Making
Feb 05 2016
Plum Wine 2016
Some notes on my plum wine making for 2016 (learnings for next time) Fruit – picked approx 60kg of fruit – 4 times my harvest of 2012 (the last time I made plum wine). The tree was loaded this year. I picked the ripe plums between 5th and 12th Jan, that’s later than usual for …
Jun 16 2012
Plum Wine Bottled
I’ve just bottled the plum wine that I started making back in January. If you think the waiting in beer making is bad, try making wine! Five months until it’s even bottled, then a minimum recommended aging of at least six months. But as I do when bottling beer, I took the opportunity at bottling …
Jan 20 2012
Plum Wine
In addition to brewing beer I’ve also made a feijoa wine and distilled some spirits last April and now I’ve just started a batch of plum wine. I made a small batch of feijoa wine as we have a feijoa tree that produces lots of fruit. It turned out fairly good, a bit like a …
