Raspberry wine at home: recipe

Homemade wine is always especially appreciated because it is a natural product and has an original taste and aroma. You can prepare an alcoholic drink at home from various products, for example, apples, grapes, currants. Raspberry wine is considered the most delicious, elite. It is prepared from ripe, sweet berries in compliance with a certain technology. Further in the article we will try to give several different recipes with a detailed description so that even a novice winemaker can make raspberry wine at home.

Classic recipe with detailed description

Homemade raspberry wine can be fortified or light. The simplest, classic wine recipe below allows you to get exactly a low-alcohol drink with a strength of 10-12%. To make it, you need 1 kg of berries, 1 liter of water and 500 g of sugar. If desired, you can fix the finished wine with alcohol or vodka.

Using the example of this recipe, we will try to describe in as much detail as possible the intricacies of making raspberry wine. The basics of the proposed technology should be used in other winemaking recipes. And it is recommended to prepare homemade raspberry wine as follows:

• Ripe raspberries carefully grind through a sieve or meat grinder. Transfer the resulting slurry to a clean glass container, leaving 1/3 of the free space. Add 0,7 l of water and 0,3 kg of sugar to the berry puree.
• Cover the glass container with a lid with a water seal or a rubber glove. When using a glove, remember to make a small hole with a needle in one of its fingers to remove carbon dioxide.
• The resulting must must be left in the room for 8-10 days. At this time, an active fermentation process will be observed with the formation of foam and the release of carbon dioxide. During this period, the wort is recommended to be stirred daily.
• The wort must be filtered through a multi-layered piece of gauze. The berry pulp should be squeezed out, the cake should be discarded, and the liquid should be used in the future.
• Mix 0,3 l of pure water and 100 g of sugar. Pour the resulting syrup into the wort. Cover the container with liquid again with a glove or a special lid.
• After 3 days, add another portion of sugar (100 g) to the must and again close the container with a glove.
• For 30-60 days from the day when the last portion of sugar was added, the raspberry drink should ferment. After about 40 days of fermentation, it must be removed from the sediment, poured into a new, clean container. “Clean” wine should ferment for several days under a water seal (glove).
• At the end of fermentation, the glove will deflate, and the water seal will no longer allow bubbles to pass through. A sign of readiness is also the clarification of the wort.
• The finished alcoholic drink is once again removed from the sediment and bottled. If desired, raspberry wine can be sweetened or fixed with alcohol (vodka). If sugar is added, the wine may begin to ferment again, so the container must be covered with a water seal for several days. The finished drink must be filled to the top of the bottles, leaving a minimum amount of air inside.
• To obtain a brighter taste, the wine is aged for 3-6 months at a temperature of +6-+16⁰C.

All the described recommendations for making raspberry wine are perfectly demonstrated in the video:

A good example will allow you to understand even the most difficult moments of winemaking.

Raspberry wine prepared at home is perfectly stored under an airtight lid in the cellar for 5 years. Over time, the taste of alcohol becomes even more gentle and noble.

Best Raspberry Wine Recipes

The technology proposed above allows you to make classic wine from raspberries. A light or fortified drink with the addition of alcohol (vodka) will have an excellent, delicate taste and aroma. But in addition to the classic recipe, there are other options for making wine using various additives.

Raspberry wine with raisins

You can make raspberry wine with the addition of raisins. Dried grapes will give the drink unique flavor notes and a noble shade. To prepare such a wine, you will need raspberries in the amount of 3 kg and water in a volume of 3 liters. The wine will need to add 8 tbsp. sugar and about 150-200 g of raisins, preferably from dark grapes.

The preparation of wine does not fundamentally differ from the above proposed technology:

• Grate raspberries.
• Prepare syrup from water and half of the indicated volume of sugar. The syrup can be boiled over a fire for a couple of minutes or sugar can be dissolved by long stirring.
• Mix berry puree with chilled syrup. Add raisins. Put the mixture in heat for 1,5 weeks for primary fermentation. Cover the wort jar with gauze or a piece of clean cloth. The mixture of berries and syrup must be stirred daily.
• After 8-10 days, remove the pulp from the container, remove the wine from the sediment, add the remaining sugar to the composition.
• Close the container with a glove or water seal. In this state, the wort should be until the end of the secondary fermentation for about 2 months.
• The finished wine, removed from the sediment again, must be bottled under a sealed lid.

Raisins are quite sweet. On its surface, it contains a certain amount of yeast and is able to activate the fermentation process. At the same time, raisins give off their unique aroma and noble shade.

Berry wine with raspberries, cherries and currants

The combination of various berries allows you to get a very interesting alcoholic drink. So, in one recipe, you can simultaneously use raspberries, blackcurrants, cherries. Let’s talk in more detail about how to make such wine.

For one wine recipe, you must use 1,5 liters of raspberry juice and currant juice, 1 liter of cherry juice. Sugar can be added to wine, depending on the desired strength, in an amount of 1,5 to 2,5 kg.

The process of making a berry drink is as follows:

• Squeeze juices from unwashed berries and mix. Add half of the sugar, mix the drink and cover the container with a water seal.
• After 2 weeks, add another small portion of sugar and again wait for the stage of active fermentation.
• If it is decided to make a wine with a high alcohol content, then sugar should be added until the yeast is killed by a high alcohol concentration (15%). At this time, the wine will become consistently sweet and strong.
• If the fortress at a certain stage of wine preparation suits, then it is necessary to wait for the complete stop of fermentation, remove the wine from the sediment.
• Pour the finished wine into clean containers and seal them tightly.
• Store wine in a cool cellar or refrigerator for 1-2 months for its full maturation.

Berry wine is very concentrated and fragrant, similar to liqueur. You can make an alcoholic drink lighter and more unobtrusive by adding water at the initial stage of preparation. To do this, sugar must be dissolved in 1 liter of water and added to a mixture of berry juices.

Raspberry jam wine

It often happens that an open jar of jam lingered in the refrigerator, or somewhere in the cellar on the far shelf suddenly found a “long-term raspberry treasure”. In this case, you can process the jam into a wonderful wine. This will require 2,5 liters of water and 1 liter of jam. The raisins in the recipe will become a source of yeast, so you do not need to wash them first.

To prepare wine from jam, you need to do this:

• Heat the water slightly, add jam and raisins to it. Mix the ingredients thoroughly and pour into a glass bottle or jar, filling 2/3 of the total volume.
• Leave the wort warm for 3-4 weeks under a rubber glove or water seal. During this time, the fermentation process must successfully pass and complete.
• Remove the pulp from the liquid, separate the wine from the sediment. Pour it into bottles, close with an airtight lid and send to storage.

The recipe using raspberry jam is unique because it can be used to make wine relatively quickly. At the same time, an alcoholic drink always turns out to be aromatic and tasty.

A good example of how to make raspberry wine from jam can be seen in the video:

The proposed recipe is very simple and accessible to everyone, even a novice winemaker.

Conclusion

For homemade wine, you can use fragrant forest or garden raspberries, which will give not only taste pleasure, but also benefits for the human body. If you use yellow berries in the recipe, you can get an excellent white wine that will surprise the most sophisticated taster. Raisins, cherries or other berries can complement and highlight the taste of raspberries, making the wine even more noble. But even using the simplest recipe for raspberry wine, you can make a very tasty, natural alcoholic drink at home, which will be a great alternative to purchased wines and vodka.