Fruit Wines


Hard Apple Cider Recipe

It’s not beer and it’s not wine, but making hard apple cider is always fun. You can do it the old fashioned way by pressing the apples or you can purchase the apple cider. If you purchase the cider, just make sure that there are no preservatives in it. Personally, I buy the apple cider [...]

Grapefruit Wine

Grapefruit 2.25 lb
White grape concentrate 1.5 pints
Sugar 2.25 lb
Water 1 gallon
Campden Tablet 1
Wine yeast

Yeast nutrient

Squeeze the juice from the grapefruit into a fermenting bin and grate in the skins. Pour in the water and grape juice. Crush the campden tablet (as described on it’s container) and add to [...]

Quince Wine

Third in the Series
This is a nice dry wine with hints of pear and apple in its flavor. For those who have never seen a quince tree, the fruit is yellow to yellow-green—it resembles a pear in color, though it doesn’t have the classic pear shape. (The fruit looks something like a fat [...]

Sweet Mulberry Wine

Third in the Series
” Any one who has a mulberry tree in the yard knows that these berries can be a real pain in the neck. The fruit falls all summer long, creating disagreeable purple stains on the patio, shoes and children’s clothes. When you do gather enough to make something of them, [...]