The gooseberry is called not for nothing northern grapes – wine from it is close to taste to some grape. Connection of this in appearance of modest berry with other fruits in one recipe allows to create surprisingly fragrant and tasty drinks. Try to make gooseberry wine with cherry is a successful flavoring and color scheme for the real gourmets.
Gooseberry and cherry wine: raw materials preparation
Reap the kept-up crop on prickly bushes and carefully touch. The berries covered with a scab and spoiled by wreckers can affect taste of future drink. Usually during maturing of a gooseberry in a garden late grades of cherry still keep up. Much it isn't required – 4-5 glasses on a 10-liter glass large bottle – an ideal vessel for preparation of wines in house conditions.
Wash out a gooseberry and fill with it a third of volume of a 10-liter large bottle. Mash berries to a condition of gruel, it is possible with a small amount of granulated sugar. Add clean cherry, previously having removed stones. Fill in a mash with the sweetened and cooled boiled water ("on a coat hanger" large bottles). The total number of sugar has to make 200 g on liter of the wandering mix. Very well for acceleration of process of fermentation of kryzhovenny wine to add several berries of raspberry from a bush is a magnificent natural yeast. Not to wash fruits at all!
Kryzhovenny wine: maturing and pouring
In order to avoid explosions and fountains because of release of carbon dioxide put on a rubber glove a neck of ware ("Hi to Gorbachev") or make a water lock – a tight cover with an opening and a rubber tube which end needs to be lowered in the bottle standing nearby with water. Fermentation will be strong and quite fast.
If approximately in a month the liberation of gas stops, and liquid will become rather transparent, you managed to make gooseberry wine with cherry. Accurately merge drink by means of a hose, without shaking up a deposit, try and add sugar to taste. For a stop of process of fermentation add 50 g of vodka or 25 g of alcohol on all volume of alcohol and let wine stand a few weeks more.
Domestic wine from a gooseberry with cherry turns out a pleasant sweet-sour flavor, bright pink color, slightly opaque on a gleam. It is the best of all to store a valuable product in a dark cool cellar, in densely corked glass container.