Wine is the oldest drink that is very popular. Recipes for making it at home are quite simple and do not require special knowledge in the field of winemaking. The variety of ingredients for making wine is great, but for some reason the mulberry berries, which fall abundantly under their feet in the summer, do not find a proper use in this. A unique set of useful substances, pleasant taste and aroma of this berry, for the preparation of such a divine drink as wine, unfortunately, is not popular. We want to change this established opinion and offer recipes for a delicious, unusual, slightly tart taste of mulberry wine.
To prepare this drink, you need mature, most saturated mulberry fruits, which are desirable to collect in dry weather. Wine from mulberry, as in other cases, is obtained by fermenting berries and their juice, but there are several distinctive features. The mulberry berry is very sweet and has almost no acidity, so it is necessary to add citric acid, or an acidic berry, for example cherry. The use of wine from black mulberry leads to the coloration of the mouth in ink color. This nuance is easily corrected by the preparation of white mulberry wine. The taste will be as fragrant and pleasant, and the color is pale pink, besides, both wines are cooked equally.
How to make wine from mulberry, we will tell in more details in our recipes below.
Wine from black or white mulberry
Ingredients:
- black or white mulberry - 2 kg;
- granulated sugar - 1,5 kg;
- citric acid - 10 g.
- purified water - 5 liters.
Preparation
From the water and sugar, cook the syrup and cool to fifty degrees. Then combine the ripe berries of mulberries in a suitable bowl and pour the prepared syrup. At the neck of the dishes we put on a medical glove, making a few punctures in the fingers, or installing a septum. We put the wine in a warm place and leave it to the end of fermentation. This process lasts about three weeks, depending on the temperature in the room. Then drain the liquid with a tube, squeeze the must and taste it. If sweets or alcohol is not enough, add more sugar and set again for fermentation. With satisfactory taste characteristics, warm the wine to seventy degrees on a small fire and pour it on the bottles for storage. Heating is necessary to remove excess gases from the finished product.
Wine from mulberry juice
Ingredients:
- black or white mulberry - about 3-3.5 kg;
- granulated sugar - 0,75 kg;
- cinnamon - 25 g.
- white wine - 0,5 l;
- purified water - 3 liters.
Preparation
The berries, not rinsing, are kept after collection for a day, and then squeezed the juice. For two liters of the resulting juice, add five liters of warm, purified water with sugar dissolved in it at a rate of 150 grams per
Wine from mulberries is rarely cooked without sugar, as a dry or semi-dry wine from these berries few people have to taste. Correctly made wine from mulberry has sweetness similar to Cahors, and it is this taste that is most pronounced and attractive.