Author Topic: Plum wine ! (Read 8958 times)

plumseverywhere · « **on:** July 28, 2010, 11:09:49 am »

well I can see I will have to direct hubby here now!! since last year we've made plum wine which is 17% proof and have been approached by a local vintner to make 200L for him to sell on. As I type Tony is downstairs crushing his latest plums (oo-er!) and we are picking them daily, we will be doing so for the next 6 weeks!!

would be nice to read about other home made brews too!!

WinslowPorker · « **Reply #1 on:** July 28, 2010, 11:49:22 am »

Poor Mr Plums, hope he can walk in a straight line after spending all day picking and then crushing his plums.

On another note there is a guy where i live who advertised in the parish mag asking for anyone with plum/sloe/damson trees to donate any unused fruit. It turns out he is home making different wines and spirits (vodka, gin etc) anyway he is making a killing! perhaps something else for you to do? Still thin plum wine ice cubes has got some merit

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #2 on:** July 28, 2010, 11:55:50 am »

haha!! yep, will have some of them in the freezer!!! the kids have been brilliant this year so far - only had one fall out of a tree picking the top fruit yet. last year they moaned all summer, this year I am bribing them

will have to get some cheap voddy etc and put some plums in for xmas pressies - thanks for reminding me of that one WP

Samantha · « **Reply #3 on:** July 28, 2010, 12:49:50 pm »

Ohhh wonderful .. perhaps you can share a plum wine recipe .. i get a load of plums from a friend every year .. this is something else to potentially do with them

Sam

WinslowPorker · « **Reply #4 on:** July 28, 2010, 02:46:21 pm »

I have got a victoria plum in the garden and it is laden down with fruit, makes a lovely jam and also i freeze some stewed ones for a crumble in the winter months

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #5 on:** July 28, 2010, 03:17:36 pm »

I'll have to ask Tony for his recipe - I'm only involved in the first and last stages (picking and drinking!!) I know there are lots of plums, raisins, sugar and little sachets involved but thats it!

plumseverywhere · « **Reply #6 on:** August 18, 2010, 08:47:58 am »

half way through plum harvest and we are up to about 300L of wine fermenting in our old caravan. Its that time of year again where I mutter how much I hate plums!!

the victoria's aren't even out properly yet

SLI · « **Reply #7 on:** August 30, 2010, 01:46:29 pm »

Hi,

I've been reading the plum wine saga with interest as I've just started picking plums from my tree. (I've got a bit bored as there are so many, hence sneaking off to the laptop). I was thinking of having a go at plum vodka & am assuming about 1lb of fruit to 1lb or so of sugar & prick the fruit??? I also have damsons & was going to make damson gin.
Could anyone give me a few pointers please?