Delicate wine from gooseberry.

The special taste of house wine from berries and fruits makes it popular among the population for several hundred years. Although the alcohol industry offers an extensive selection of beverages for every taste, they can not be compared to home preparations. Wine from gooseberry takes a worthy place among similar drinks and to taste very much reminds grape.

Using different varieties of these "striped watermelons" and mixing them with raspberries, currants or apples you can get bright color shades, delicate aroma and incomparable pleasure. Although it is possible to make good sparkling wine from gooseberry , it is most often used for obtaining dessert or strong drinks.

To make wine from gooseberry at home, you need to know a few subtleties and observe the technology. Having several different recipes, you can find the most suitable for yourself. Where should I start? With the selection of suitable containers and making sourdough. The best option will be glass bottles with a capacity of 10 liters. But if you are preparing a larger quantity of the drink, 18 liter plastic bottles from drinking water are perfect.

No good wine from gooseberry will not work without a good wine ferment. You can cook it yourself. This should be done about two weeks before the moment of making the drink. We will need freshly picked berries of raspberries. Favorable conditions for collection are daytime and dry, sunny weather. Remove the ripe raspberries from the bush, remove from it sepals and twigs. But, in no case do not treat with water.

Chop the raspberries. For two glasses of berry puree we take half a glass of sugar and one glass of well water. The resulting mixture is poured into a glass jar and, closing the neck with gauze, put it in a dark and warm place. Since the start of fermentation, we wait four days and strain the resulting mixture through a fine sieve. We throw out the mash, and the fermented juice is used as a wine sourdough. To prepare ten liters of wine drink it will take three hundred grams of this raspberry juice. You can prepare a starter for each serving of wine or use instead of it a hundred gram of sludge after the preparation of the first batch of the drink.

Wine from gooseberry. Recipe number 1.

From five kilograms of red berries we make a puree with the help of a meat grinder or a food processor. Dilute it with boiled water, keeping the proportions. Ten glasses of berry mass will require one glass of water. Add 200-300 grams of ready-made leaven and pour the resulting mixture into prepared containers. Cover it with gauze and stand in a warm place for about three days before the fermentation.

Strain the juice from the pulp, dilute it with water in the same amount, add one hundred grams of granulated sugar per liter of liquid. Fill the resulting solution in the same container, close with a rubber glove and leave until the end of the fermentation process. Re-filter the drink, getting rid of the sediment. We pour wine on glass bottles, close them with stoppers and put them in a cool place for 3-4 months to insist.

Wine from gooseberry. Recipe number 2.

Berry puree from five kilograms of gooseberries is diluted with five liters of 25% sugar syrup, poured into prepared containers and left for ten days for fermentation. After every three days, thoroughly mix the mixture. Filter through a fine sieve, completely getting rid of the pulp. Pour the juice into the same container and close it with a rubber glove. We leave for a month and a half for complete fermentation. After this, gently merge the resulting wine from the sediment. We pour it on glass bottles, plug the lids and leave to infuse for two months in a cool place.

Homemade wine from gooseberry, cooked according to any of the presented recipes, turns out to be a beautiful golden color and has a unique delicate aroma.