LAVENDER WINE
If I end up doing this one, I would probably use honey instead f sugar and blackberry juice instead of Welches.
There are many varieties of lavender, plants of the genus Lavandula -- especially Lavandula officinalis. They all contain clusters of small, fragrant, purplish flowers. The small flowers must be picked off the stems to make the wine. Flowers can be picked and frozen in ZipLoc bags for later use. This wine is not only delicious, but its bouquet will be appreciated as soon as you open a bottle.
1 to 1-1/2 pints lavender flowers
2 lb granulated sugar
10.5 oz can of Welch's 100% white grape juice frozen concentrate
1/2 tsp citric acid
1/8 tsp tannin powder
7-1/2 pts water
1 tsp yeast nutrient
Champagne yeast
Boil 1/2 gal water and add sugar, stirring until dissolved. Stir in frozen grape concentrate and return to boil. Immediately pour boiling water over all dry ingredients except yeast in primary. When water cools to lukewarm, add remaining water and sprinkle yeast on top. Cover with cloth and ferment 7 days. Strain out flowers and transfer liquid to secondary. Fit airlock. Ferment 60 days and rack, top up, refit airlock, and allow to sit another 60 days. Rack into bottles and allow to age one year.
There are many varieties of lavender, plants of the genus Lavandula -- especially Lavandula officinalis. They all contain clusters of small, fragrant, purplish flowers. The small flowers must be picked off the stems to make the wine. Flowers can be picked and frozen in ZipLoc bags for later use. This wine is not only delicious, but its bouquet will be appreciated as soon as you open a bottle.
1 to 1-1/2 pints lavender flowers
2 lb granulated sugar
10.5 oz can of Welch's 100% white grape juice frozen concentrate
1/2 tsp citric acid
1/8 tsp tannin powder
7-1/2 pts water
1 tsp yeast nutrient
Champagne yeast
Boil 1/2 gal water and add sugar, stirring until dissolved. Stir in frozen grape concentrate and return to boil. Immediately pour boiling water over all dry ingredients except yeast in primary. When water cools to lukewarm, add remaining water and sprinkle yeast on top. Cover with cloth and ferment 7 days. Strain out flowers and transfer liquid to secondary. Fit airlock. Ferment 60 days and rack, top up, refit airlock, and allow to sit another 60 days. Rack into bottles and allow to age one year.
Winemaking Ingredients: Lavender Wine - Wine Making Guides
1/4 pint dried lavender flowers (picked from the stems)
Juice from 1 lemon
Carton / tin white grape concentrate
2 1/2 lbs / 1,100 grams sugar
Wine yeast
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient / energiser
water - to make 1 gallon of wine
Winemaking Method: Lavender Wine - Wine Making Guides
Extract the juice from the lemon and add to boiling water, together with the dried lavender flowers. Allow to cool and transfer lavender wine mixture to the fermentation bucklet, standing for three days. Strain and add all of the other ingredients, stirring for three days.
Transfer lavender wine liquor into demijohn with airlock. Once fermentation has finished, rack wine and then after three months, transfer to wine bottles, allowing to stand for several months, or longer.
Lavender wine has an unusual, zesty flavour and is not always suitable as a table wine, although it is particularly refreshing.
1/4 pint dried lavender flowers (picked from the stems)Juice from 1 lemon
Carton / tin white grape concentrate
2 1/2 lbs / 1,100 grams sugar
Wine yeast
1 teaspoon yeast nutrient / energiser
water - to make 1 gallon of wine
Winemaking Method: Lavender Wine - Wine Making Guides
Extract the juice from the lemon and add to boiling water, together with the dried lavender flowers. Allow to cool and transfer lavender wine mixture to the fermentation bucklet, standing for three days. Strain and add all of the other ingredients, stirring for three days.
Transfer lavender wine liquor into demijohn with airlock. Once fermentation has finished, rack wine and then after three months, transfer to wine bottles, allowing to stand for several months, or longer.
Lavender wine has an unusual, zesty flavour and is not always suitable as a table wine, although it is particularly refreshing.
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