It’s been such a grey day today, much more November than late July, so this evening I got out the spare demijohns, funnel, sieve & siphon & set too with the redcurrant & gooseberry wine to take them to their respective next stages.The gooseberry first, which needed racking off – the sediment is thick at the bottom, & the wine translucent. It was the work of a minute to siphon the good stuff into a new demijohn, then I gave it a good shake to de-gas it, then covered it & I’ll now leave it for its final settling.
Then to the redcurrant wine which has been fermenting looking pink & frothy in its two buckets – I put the sieve in the funnel & poured the buckets into each of two demijohns.Even with the pips & pulp out the way, the volume is still slightly more than a gallon in total, so I split it evenly & popped an airlock on each, wrapped round each with a tea towel (to exclude the light so to keep the delicious colour) & they are now chuckling away in a rigorous ferment.
The redcurrant looks devine - the colour of frozen Strawberry Daiquiri's!
ReplyDeleteShould a hobbit ask why your goosegog wine appears to be on an upturned chair which appears to be on a blanket on your table?
Gravity syphoning Bilbo!
ReplyDeleteI think wine and preserve making are a wonderful way of bottling summer days!
I am quite jealous of your wine making skills- so far the three I have tried this year are definately not nice tasting. Maybe some time to mature is needed!
ReplyDeleteYour wine looks most delicious Hazel, I made redcurrant wine last year but I'm afraid it wasn't a keeper.
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Far too nice for that :-)
Thanks for the comments, all!
ReplyDeleteGravity siphoning is spot on, of course - mind you, upturning the chairs onto the table in the attic room both protects the table surface (cheap MFI jobbie!) & keeps the chairs out the way if I should ever feel the urge to vacuum, too.
Fruit wines taste more 'wine like' than veg wines (of the kits which taste of chemicals to me), QIM - although you are quite right about leaving them to mature - if you can bear to! Isn't that right, Clare...?