Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:28 pm Post subject: Elderberry wine disaster
We had a little taste (as you do) whilst racking off our elderberry wine yesterday and it's foul - really really sweet (think Ribena-sweet). Is there anything we can do?
Jellycat I wouldn't know the answer to that (hopeless wine maker here) but David would probably know. If he's not along soon you could go to his forum (http://www.winesathome.net/forum/index.php) and ask there, they're all very clever over there when it comes to wine making.
Could you add brandy or a white spirit like vodka and make a Cassis-type liqueur? I remember when I was on my first ever trip to France when I was 18, and travelling all by myself, I was inordinately pleased to "discover" Cassis Rouge which was drunk all over the Provence region and was a mixture of Cassis and red wine, so you got a kind of blackcurranty red wine. When I came home I was too poor to buy Cassis, so I used blackcurrant cordial and a splash of vodka to add to the red wine. It all sounds quite disgusting now, but I was a penniless charity worker at the time, and it did make a not unpleasant fruity flavoured red wine for very little money, and conjured up my holiday memories of being it the hot and dusty South when it was cold and wet at home.
I think if you were to try it mixed with a very dry red, even a supermarket plonk type red, you might find it is worth drinking. It's not the same as pure elderberry but it's definately better than chucking it all away, and you could even present it to visitors as something new and different!
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