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Dried Fig Wine

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In season January to December · makes 4.5 L · target OG 1.090

Another winter cupboard wine; the same body-from-dried-fruit lesson with a mellower fruit.

You will need

  • Dried figs, chopped500 g
  • Sugar1.0 kg
  • Lemons, juice of2
  • Raisins, chopped150 g
  • Wine yeast + nutrient1 sachet
  • Waterto 4.5 L

Method

  1. 1

    Sanitise. Dried figs give a mellow, honeyed body and are on any shelf all year.

  2. 2

    Chop the figs, add with the raisins and lemon juice to the bucket, pour on 3 L cooled boiled water; add the sugar dissolved warm and top to 4.5 L (reading ~1.090).

  3. 3

    Pitch the yeast and nutrient; ferment on the fruit a week, stirring daily, then strain.

  4. 4

    Rack as it clears.

  5. 5

    A soft, golden, faintly honeyed wine.

  6. 6

    Best after a year in the bottle.

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