does anyone have a good recipe for orange wine, made with
fresh oranges?
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Bryan Casper
Method:
Wash and thinly pare six oranges, chop them up and place them in a
bin. Strain the syrup from the peaches and store it in the
refrigerator.
Crush or liquidize the peaches,and add them to the bin. Pour
approximately 2.5 litres/ 4 and a half pints of boiling water over
them, cover and leave to cool.
Express and strain the juice from the balance of the oranges and add
to the bin with the pectic enzyme and one crushed Campden tablet.
Cover and leave for 24 hours.
Dissolve the sugar in a litre/1 and three quarter pints of hot water,
leave to cool then bottle,seal and store in the refrigerator.
Mix into the must the concentrated grape juice (sweet white wine style
for preferance) and the activated yeast and nutrient. Cover and
ferment on the pulp for two days.
Strain out and lightly press the pulp, then discard it. Pour the must
into a demi-john, add the peach syrup and the sugar syrup, top up, fit
an air lock and ferment to a finish.
Rack into a storage jar, add two Campden tablets, seal and store until
the wine is bright, then rack again.
Mature this wine for a year, then bottle and serve it cold with the
dessert course of a meal as you would a Sauternes or Barsac.
If needs be sweeten it still further to your taste. Makes six bottles.
Regards
Neil Hurst