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Pomegranate Wine

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In season January to December · makes 4.5 L · target OG 1.085

Year-round; restraint with an intense, tannic juice.

You will need

  • Pure pomegranate juice (no preservative)2 L
  • Sugar1.0 kg
  • Wine yeast + nutrient1 sachet
  • Waterto 4.5 L

Method

  1. 1

    Sanitise. Pomegranate juice is intensely coloured and tannic, so like blackcurrant you use it dilute rather than neat.

  2. 2

    Check the juice has no preservative. Pour it into the demijohn with the sugar dissolved in warm water; top to 4.5 L (reading ~1.085).

  3. 3

    Pitch the yeast and nutrient, fit the airlock.

  4. 4

    Ferment out; the tannin means it tastes firm young.

  5. 5

    Rack when clear and age most of a year to soften.

  6. 6

    A jewel-red, faintly astringent wine from a carton.

What this one teaches you

  • · Dilution of strong fruit

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