Choke Cherry Wine
Ingredients
- 6 lbs Choke Cherries
- 2.25 lbs Sugar
- 1 gallon Water
- Sherry Yeast
- Yeast Nutrient
- Pectic Enzyme
- 1 Campden Tablet
Mash the cherries in a straining bag taking care not to break the stones. Squeeze the juice into a fermenting vessel and then tie off the bag and place into the fermenter as well. Add all of the ingredients except for the yeast to the fermenter. Stir and leave for 24 hours. Add the yeast, cover and move to a warm place for fermentation to begin. Allow to ferment until the SG of the must is 1.030 then remove the bag containing the crushed cherries. Strain off into a carboy, fit a bung and airlock and leave in a warm place to ferment out. Once fermentation has completed, rack into another carboy and add the crushed campden tablet. Clear and bottle as usual.
