Homemade Cherry Plum Wine with Natural Fermentation

Fragrant, tasty, warming, for a winter feast! Simple homemade cherry plum wine is interesting because it is prepared not with pure sugar, but with sugar syrup. It ferments on its own — without yeast. All natural, no alcohol added.
cook time: 2880h
Owen Truitt
Homemade Cherry Plum Wine with Natural Fermentation

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

93
Calories
23g
Carbs

Ingredients (20 portions)

Basic:

Cherry plum 2.5 kg
Water 1 l

For the syrup:

Sugar 1 kg
Water 0.5 l

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to make simple homemade wine from cherry plum? Prepare all the necessary ingredients. You can take cherry plum of any color. If you take red cherry plum, the wine will turn out to be a beautiful burgundy shade. And yellow cherry plum will make white wine. Or you can, as I did, mix red and yellow. Sort through the cherry plums and remove the spoiled ones. Wash the remaining whole fruits in running water.

Step 2

Step 2
Take two 3 liter jars. If there is a larger jar, you can take it. Fill the jars with cherry plum a little short of the shoulders.

Step 3

Step 3
Pre-cook the invert syrup and cool it. Pour the cherry plum over it. To prepare invert syrup, combine sugar and water in a saucepan. Place the pan on the stove and bring to a boil, stirring until all the sugar dissolves. Reduce the heat to low and continue to simmer the syrup for about 30 minutes. Cover the pan with a lid. Place a drop of syrup on a plate; if it does not spread, it is ready.

Step 4

Step 4
Add water so that it reaches the hangers, secure the gauze on top and leave the jar under the gauze until fermentation begins. Bubbles will tell us about the start of fermentation.

Step 5

Step 5
Put a glove on the jar as fermentation begins. Make punctures in one or more fingers with a needle to release excess gas. It is advisable to secure the glove well with an elastic band or tape, otherwise it may be torn off the jar. Leave the jar to ferment.

Step 6

Step 6
The glove will first rise and inflate due to active fermentation. When the wine ferments, the glove deflates and falls down. This means itʼs time to strain the cherry plum.

Step 7

Step 7
Strain the liquid through several layers of gauze. Squeeze the cherry plum.

Step 8

Step 8
Pour the strained liquid into a clean jar, put on the glove with a small hole again and leave to ferment until the sediment separates. Then strain again through cheesecloth, or with cotton wool. Pour the wine into bottles, close the lids and leave to infuse for at least 2-3 weeks. The longer, the tastier it will be. Be careful when drinking alcohol!

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