It's no secret that, how many people, so many taste preferences. This statement is true, not only when it comes to food and entertainment, but also alcohol. Some people prefer expensive cognac, others prefer “live” beer, still others prefer ordinary 40-degree vodka, and fourth prefer a variety of cocktails. A lot of fans and homemade wine, and no wonder. Tinctures, liqueurs, prepared on their own, have a rich, rich taste, they contain only natural berries and fruits and there are no chemical dyes or flavors.
What is homemade wine most often made of? From black chokeberry (chokeberry), from ordinary red mountain ash, from viburnum, apples, bird cherry, a variety of jam and the usual grapes. Each family has its own, traditional recipe for making this wonderful drink.
Surely many will like the wine from aronia with cherry leaves according to the following recipe.
It is necessary to take a glass of granulated sugar, a large handful of cherry leaves (at least 35-40 pieces) and 200 gr. alcohol. The washed and peeled berries and leaves are ground through a sieve or crushed on a blender, then poured with a liter of boiling water and put on fire. After the broth boils for a couple of minutes, it is removed from the stove, cooled at room temperature, filtered and filled with alcohol. Aronia wine is bottled and left to infuse for a week. It turns out it is saturated, a little tart and quite strong.
Fans of sweet tinctures and liquors can try making wine from chokeberries according to the following recipe.
For preparation you will need: 100 fresh cherry leaves, 60 berries of chokeberry, 600 gr. granulated sugar, a glass of vodka and a bag of citric acid. The berries and leaves are thoroughly washed, the chokeberry is squeezed in mashed potatoes and put in a saucepan, poured with a liter of water, sugar is added and boiled for a quarter of an hour. Turn off the fire, add a bag of citric acid and cool. Add vodka and bottled. The wine is fragrant, sweet and not strong, similar to fragrant liquor.
Strong wine from aronia without boiling
Before making homemade wine according to this recipe, you need to take: a kilogram of berries, a half-liter bottle of vodka, lemon and vanilla. Rowan is washed in a colander and allowed to drain water. Pour the berries into a bowl or pan and knead with a pestle or hands. Pour the resulting puree with vodka, cover with a lid and leave for a day for fermentation. The next day, squeeze a quarter of the lemon into a tincture, put a pinch of vanillin and filter the berries through a fine sieve or by hand. The resulting wine is poured into a half-liter bottle. It turns out to be dry, very strong and saturated. This wine is best suited as an aperitif for meat dishes.
The taste of chokeberry wine can be improved by adding apples to it.
Preparing berry-apple wine according to this recipe for about 2 months. It will require: a pound of apples and a kilogram of rowan berries, 1.5 kg of granulated sugar and water. Seeds are removed from apples, washed and rubbed on a coarse grater. Aronia berries are also washed and mashed with a pestle or chopped in a blender. Apples and berry puree are placed in a three-liter jar and poured with water so that 1.75 liters are obtained. the fault. They put the jar in a warm place, having previously covered it with a lid. To prevent it from breaking during fermentation, several holes are made in the lid. The berries are allowed to brew for a week, stirring them daily, after which 0.5 kg of sugar is added to them. After another week, with daily stirring, another 0.5 kg. After three weeks of daily stirring, the remaining sugar is added to the wine. For another 7 days, the berries are mixed daily, then left for a month alone for natural fermentation. 2 months after the start of cooking, the wine is filtered and bottled.
What will your family members definitely enjoy? Wine, if made correctly and with love, will decorate any table.