Yellow plum wine at home 

Yellow plums attract with their bright color. These berries are used for compotes, preserves, jams. Moreover, this plant always pleases with a rich harvest. Yellow plum fruits are also in great demand among winemakers. As a result, if the recipes are followed, a dessert white wine is obtained.

You can treat dear guests with homemade yellow plum wine, serving a drink with meat, fish dishes and poultry. Citrus fruits, chocolate and marmalade are suitable for light white wine.

Let’s share secrets

Winemakers who make white wine from yellow plums know many of the subtleties of their business and are ready to share many of them with beginners.

Some additives affect the taste of wine:

• If you want a tart wine, add currant sprigs.
• If you use clove buds, thyme, oregano, then the aroma of the wine will be unusual.
• Add apricots to plums for a sweet dessert drink.
• Healing wine can be prepared if, instead of granulated sugar, honey is used in a 1: 1 ratio.

There is one more common nuance when making wine from yellow plums: the fruits contain little liquid, so you always have to add water to the pulp. You can’t do without it.

When choosing plums, pay attention to their quality. Any suspicious fruit should be discarded immediately. The rot will spoil the wine.

We hope that your collection of secret points when making homemade yellow plum wine will be replenished with your tips.

Plum wine is a healthy drink rich in vitamin C, carotene and other substances. Drinking a drink in small doses helps to strengthen the immune system, improves blood circulation, and increases hemoglobin.

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It is not necessary to use only white plums when making wine, you can always experiment and add fruits of other varieties and colors. Then the drink will have a different color and flavor range.

But today we will focus on some simple recipes for making plum wine from yellow fruits.

Option 1 – classic recipe

According to the recipe we need:

• yellow plums – 8 kg;
• granulated sugar – 1kg 600g or 2kg;
• water – 1000 ml.

Method of preparation

1. Plums do not need to be washed before starting the wine. The whitish plaque contains bacteria or wild yeasts that are responsible for the fermentation process. Therefore, you need to wipe the contaminated places with a cloth and remove the seeds from each yellow fruit. Plum kernels contain hydrocyanic acid, from which the wine will not only be bitter, but also dangerous to health.
2. Thoroughly grind the berries in a large bowl until we get a puree. It is best to perform this procedure with a wooden pusher.

   

3. Then pour the plum puree into a saucepan and add a liter of warm boiled water. We leave the container in a warm and dark place for fermentation for five days. Stir the pulp from the plums constantly, lower it down.
4. When the allotted time has passed, we filter the liquid, separate the pulp through several layers of gauze. Everything that turns out to be in it also needs to be squeezed out and merged into the total mass.
5. We pour a little liquid, slightly warm it up, add the right amount of sugar. More or less – it all depends on the taste of the plums and your preferences. If you like sweet wine, then add all the sugar indicated in the recipe or even a little more.
6. Pour the wine into a large bottle, put on a water seal. If such a device is not available in your arsenal, put on a medical glove with a finger pierced by a needle on the neck. A bottle of wine should be placed in a cool place and shaken daily.

   Do not fill the container to the top so that there is room for fermentation.

7. Plum wine at home according to a simple recipe should ferment for two months, then we remove it from the sediment several times, trying not to stir up the settled yeast.

   

8. At the end of fermentation, pour the plum wine into bottles and cork tightly. The aroma, taste and color of a drink from plums will pick up after 2-3 years. But young wine can be drunk earlier, after 5-6 months.

Option 2 – medicinal plum wine

We prepare the following ingredients:

• yellow plums;
• granulated sugar;
• raisins.

We do not name the exact amount of ingredients for making homemade plum wine according to a simple recipe, but we will clarify the proportions. For every kilogram of fruit you need to take:

• 800 ml of water;
• 200 grams of dark raisins;
• 150 grams of sugar.

These ratios will allow you to make wine from plums at home in the right amount.

And now about the rules of preparation:

1. Put unwashed raisins with wild yeast contained on the surface in a cup and fill with water no more than +30 degrees, add 50 grams of granulated sugar. The sourdough must be kept warm for at least four days. In hotter water, the shiver will die, and at low temperatures it will not work.
2. On the fourth day, we crush the yellow plums with bloom (in no case wash!) And squeeze the juice.

   

   Fill the pomace with water, and squeeze again. Drain the plum liquid into a bottle, add sugar and liquid from the present raisins. We put a bottle for fermentation.

3. All other actions correspond to the traditions of making wine at home.

Slivyanka with medicinal properties will be ready in 90 days.

Fortified drink option

It is not necessary to wait several months for a plum wine tasting. If you use our express recipe, then you can try the home-made liquor in two months.

Despite the fact that the drink contains vodka, the taste still remains original. Even ladies can use it. Fortified wine from plums is stored at home in a dark, cool place.

What we need:

• 5 kg of yellow plum;
• 5 liters of high-quality vodka;
• 1 kg of sugar.

There are some nuances in this recipe, the observance of which is mandatory:

1. Since the role of wild yeast in this recipe is irrelevant, the yellow plums must be thoroughly washed, pitted and mashed.
2. Put the resulting puree into a large bottle, add granulated sugar, pour in vodka. Then the bottle is corked and cleaned in a warm place for 60 days.
3. At the final stage, the wine must be filtered and poured into appropriate containers.

You can invite guests and taste yellow plum wine made at home together.

Option 3 – spiced wine

Many lovers adore spicy plum. This recipe is just for them. Prepare the following products in advance:

• yellow plums – 2 kg;
• clove buds – 5 pieces;
• lavrushka – 3 leaves;
• granulated sugar – 1000 grams;
• clean water – 3 liters.

We will not wash the plums, but we will definitely take out the seeds. We crush the fruits, then add water (1 liter), clove buds, bay leaf, sugar. We put the container on the stove and cook until foam appears.

After that, remove from heat and cool. Squeeze out the pulp with a press. Pour another liter of boiled water into the resulting mass, mix and filter again. Add the last liter of water. The resulting liquid is poured into a bottle (not to the top) and put in heat. After 12 days, homemade yellow plum wine is ready.

Lightened plum wine

The process of clarification of homemade yellow plum wine, the simple recipes of which we have offered you, is completed only after a few years. The reason lies in the high content of pectin in fruits. For these purposes, winemakers use various preparations. See how they do it:

But you can clarify the wine quickly if you use chicken egg whites.

And now about it step by step:

• for every 50 liters of plum wine, only 2 proteins are needed;
• separate them from the yolks and beat thoroughly until foam forms;
• then gradually add half a glass of boiled water, mix the resulting mass;
• pour the mixture into the wine in a thin stream and mix;
• after half a month, a sediment will appear at the bottom of the bottle.

We carefully remove the wine from it, pouring it into a new container. But we will not pour into small bottles yet. The wine has not yet fully clarified, it is noticeable turbidity. Three weeks later, we will repeat the removal from the sediment and filtration. Only after the home-made plum wine becomes completely transparent, you can pour it into small containers and cork tightly.