Plum Wine. Racking And Bottling Plum Wine And Other Country Wines (Part 2 of 2)
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Plum wine and other country wines are simple to make. This video shows how I rack the wine and bottle the wine. Click SHOW MORE for more details, resources and info.
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I have been threatening to make plum wine for three years now. If I had done it back then, I would be enjoying a glass right now. I just picked a bunch of plums yesterday and will pick more today. No more procrastinating! Your wonderful, friendly teaching style makes me believe I can really do this. Here goes. Love your videos! Thank you.
Hope to get a bottle of wine as a gift maybe a 2017 mystery one
Loved the hardwork and patience ✅✅✅✅ 💯 out 💯 👍🙂
Oh that will be lovely. I don't drink alcohol these days but I did love plum wine. After visiting Europe and drinking home made grog ,it's wonderful. How amazing and diverse you and mr j are . Well done sweety
Thank you Molly! How are you?
Hi lovely , I'm ok . I am preparing for some friends to arrive from Canada, she's in the Invictus games and after will have two weeks here so that will be fun. We've been internet pals for almost 18 yrs. I'm waiting on my carer as we speak but I want you and mr j to know how much I enjoy your videos. They make me smile . Much love sweety xo
fantastic stuff and wonderful colours, its hard to leave it that long but defiantly worth it, i once lost a bottle under a cupboard and 2 years later the wine was amazing. ive noticed that if you drink a little to much the next day the hangovers are a lot lot less severe than the shop wine, less chemicals i suppose. great homemade produce Liz, thanks and take care
We siphoned off our first attempt at the plum wine, well first attempt ever. I'm happy to report success. Thanks for your great videos.
Oh Joe, that's great news! It definitely gets nicer with time, so if you can tuck a couple of bottles away until autumn you should have something lovely for the holiday season.
THANKS FOR SHARING A GREAT WINE MAKING VIDEO WITH US LOOKING FORWARD TO TRYING IT MYSELF, THANKS AND HAVE A GREAT AND BLESSED DAY :-)
You're quite the vintner! Thanks for sharing. 🌿
Yum! I’m making a little hard cider this year! I think I’m going to make some wine this spring!
We bottled our Pear Wine today from the recipe in the Farmhouse Kitchen book you recommended.
That's the recipe that I loosely followed for our pear wine. Let me know in a few months how it turned out :-)
Love the sound of the pear wine! That's it! I'm spending Christmas 2019 with you! LOL. Thanks for these videos Liz. Can't wait to get started and try it. I've bought my equipment. Just need my fruit to ripen now.
if you use a clothes peg on the stem of the wand you would be able to put it down to the level you want and leave it there, thus leaving both of your hands free to do everything else
Wow this is my next project ,there is such a glut of plums here in Luxembourg and they are delicious this is the way forward with them thanks Liz for another great video and idea 👍👏👌
Hey! Another great video.. I’m planning on doing plum wine tonight. Been canning all day. Had to butcher 7 Roosters. Have a Blessed evening
Autumn never ceases to amaze me with the amount of work that needs doing before winter sets in - pace yourself Stephie!
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I’m trying!! 😉
i got to start making some wine, it make excellent christmas gifts !!
Great video! I have made my first wines this year....Blaand and Elderflower....hoping they're good! Love your instruction on wine making!
Wow. Id love to make some. I really hope we get plums next summer. The finished bottles look so vibrant and I'd definitely wait a couple of of years for them to mature. I don't drink but I'd love to try these. 💟💟💟🍷🍹
Another great, informative video.
My syphon is a straight tube with a hole in it about 1 or so from the end, to stop the sediment.
I miss making and drinking my own wine.
Must get myself some space and organize the time to start doing it again.
Nice. Really interesting.
Great video, I'd love to try one day but my trouble is I have no patience, I wouldn't let it sit for long enough lol. Beautiful colours, looks like rose'
WOW. Byther Winery 😀
Fascinating to watch. Thank you :-)
Thanks Chrissie. Mr J is very happy that we've bottled the next batch of wine :-)
That plum wine looks fabulous! My absolute favorite - plum wine. I ask for it for C-mas. The color of the other wines you've made are beautiful.
Thank you! I love making wine for Mr J, I like that it takes so long to be ready :-)
@@LizZorab Mr J. is very lucky!
GOOD job, Liz!
thanks so much. I have fruit trees and I've saved fruit to make wine, but didn't know quite how to do it.
I hope the two videos will help you start your wine making projects. Please let me know how you get on!
Wow you make that look relatively easy! 😁 I’ve got 2 demijohns sitting in the garage, I’ll have to give it a go next year 😁
Thank you for the video, I hope you have a fabulous day! Xx
Hi Emma, it is a fairly straightforward process as long as you aren't in a hurry for it! If you do try some country wine making next year, please let me know how you get on :-)
I will, thanks Liz! I’m going to try elderflower and pear (if my pear tree bucks it’s ideas up!) haha I’ll make a cordial first, then add it in at maybe the second stage? Not sure yet, but I’ll definitely keep you posted xx
Fascinating thank you. I don’t make wine but make vanilla and it also has to sit six months or more before use.
Vanilla as in vanilla extract? Ooh that's interesting. Perhaps you'd share the recipe in the group or via Patreon messages :-)
Nice job on the video Liz. I've probably said it before but, I need to try making some wine. Your video really inspires me to get on it. I used to make home brew beer which was a lot of fun.
I'm sure wine making can't be so very different from making beer - a few less stages and less ingredients possibly, so maybe wine is a bit easier :-)
Liz Zorab - Byther Farm I think you are correct. Brewing a big batch of beer with friends took us from morning till early evening sometimes.
Thanks
Hey that was a great video hope to see a taste test video soon.
I need to try making some wine 😁
Nice colour. sue xx uk
Though it might be surprising, those bubbles don't mean that it is still fermenting, during fermentation, sometimes the co2
Hi there, I had already de-stoned my plums and put them in freezer before I saw your video. Will this make much difference if I follow your recipe. Can't wait to try this, thanks.
It won't make any difference.
@@LizZorab Thank you
I'm Back from my walk with a big bag of sloes. I'll be making sloe gin for xmas presents and this time I'm also going to try it with Poteen. I'm not a drinker myself but they make great presents
I'm with you on the not drinking alcohol thing, but I'll taste a sip to see if they are nice or not and then leave the drinking of them to Mr J.
When adding the boiled/cold water, does it not lower the alcohol content of the final product?
Not enough that it's an issue!
I know nothing of making wine so this was interesting. I did not realize it took that long to make wine. When my sister was about 19 she moved into a apartment with a room mate. They decided to make some beer. Of course they did not know what they were doing. They put it in the cabinet under the sink to keep it dark. Then the bottles started exploding. They would not open the cabinet because it was suppose to be kept dark. Later they decided to drink what did not pop the top or explode. I ask her later, how was it. She said not bad but it wasn't good either. They did not make anymore. I have not thought about that in years.
I've never tried making beer, I remember my father doing so when I was a young child, it always seemed a bit of a mysterious process. Thank you for sharing your memory of your sister and her beer experiment!
Will carbonate the wine, so you could have degassed it, and bottled it
A very merry xmas 2019 !! lol
I think Mr J will have an excellent Christmas 2019 :-) Thanks for watching!
im on my way over lololol
Just made my first ever wine using Elderflowers and wondered whether I can bottle in screw top wine bottles like yourself, as I've read that you should cork the wine. Will screw tops be airtight for maturing over months or even a few years.
Ok. Good reasons to take up the offers of plums, etc this year. I also need my wine drinking friends to save their bottles!
I have made elderberry gin before in one of those Nellie Rose cider bottles but this looks like a fun process. Also a good test of friendship when you can return the bottle of home-made wine back to them after the processing time! lol
Was that normal yeast that you use for making bread in the last video?
Seeing as it is mid Jan 2023 here rn, do you find you are accumulating a lot of empty jars now? During the summer i was as desperate as King Harold but for empty jars! I gave out so many processed foods and the decent jars were not returned. Bless them but my Dad and his best friend have been saving the single serve jars for me. I am really grateful for them as i can again repurpose them for gifts and save the larger, nicer jars for us.
I think i will also push more (for me and my social anxiety), to offer our kids school to sell the extra starters we have, in stead of giving them to neighbours who clearly don't "garden". Again the pots weren't returned for next year, after explaining everything about being ready for a bigger space in these gardens they have...
I can at least price them to the cost of the ingredients to jar or for the pots and the nutrients added and that will be my donation.
You need to buy a dried wine yeast. It is not expensive and lasts a long time.
@@LizZorab Brilliant! Thanks for the reply Liz! Will do.
Hi Liz, I just went back to these to rewatch since I just started a batch of mead, and I was wondering: do you analyze your juices ahead of time to figure out how much alcohol you‘ll have in the end, or do you just guesstimate how much sugar they have and how much extra you‘ll need?
Hi Rebekka, I don't guess how much sugar they have. All my wines get the same 3lbs sugar for a UK gallon demijohn. Some wines are sweeter than others, some presumably have more alcohol, but Mr J is happy with whatever is made!
@@LizZorab - I like that approach. Honestly, since it's just for our own consumption, I don't see why I should bother with all the analysis LOL
I just started a demijohn of mead (5 liters, so a bit more than a UK gallon) but I'm looking into apples and those are more variable than honey.
My sister desolves her sugar before she puts it into her jar. How sweet is your wine. I don't like a dry wine but I don't like it too sweet either. I know when you make a 5 gallon jug of wine you put 10 lbs of sugar and it isn't quite sweet enough for me.
Hi Gail, I think the sweetness of the wine is also effected by the sugar content of the fruit used. I'm not experienced enough to experiment with it much, so Mr J's wines are anything from fairly dry to way too sweet! Yes several people have said to dissolve the sugar before it goes into the demi John, I haven't done it that way because it just makes more washing up, but I may well do in the future :-)
Thanks for the vlog how do you store the bottles standing or laying
I store bottle standing up because I use recycled screw top bottles and I'm never completely convinced that they won't leak :-)
Liz, can I make wine from dried prunes? I need it for my chemistry project
Hi Liz, after you put the racked demijohn away for 3 to 6 months, do you need to change the water in the top plug? Also, do you add sugar every time you rack? Many thanks, J
Hi, I check the water every now and then to make sure it doesn't evaporate and yes changing the water in the airlock is not a bad thing. No sugar is added when I rack the wine, it has had all the sugar it needs at the start. :-)
Thanks so much Liz. You make it so simple even I can do it. Much obliged to you 👍🏻
MMMMMMM Liz that looks good, Would the sediment in the bottom be worth slinging in the compost? I dont think it would do any harm
Good thinking Tony, that's what I'll do next time!
What would happen if you just poured the pre-racked wine from one demi-john into another demi-john using a cheese cloth or a filter? Too much splashing? Also I love your channel! Thanks for your responses to comments! You are an awesome youtuber!
Hi Anthony, you could do that but you'd probably spill a load of it and there's a risk of getting loads of oxygen into it so it might spoil the taste. Thank you for your kind words.
Any tips on clarifying plum wine?
I don't clarify my wine, but I do rack it several times if it's still very cloudy. If it's hazy - as in you can't see through it at all, it may have a pectin haze and I don't know how to deal with that at all (sorry this isn't very helpful). I know that you can buy wine filters, but I haven't used one.
@@LizZorab Cheers , I got 3 gallons on the go at the mo but last year it didn,t clear very well , it is a fibrous fruit so I don,t mind and it still tastes great.
Why did you add the water in afterwards?
I top up the water level to make a full demi-John (6 bottles).
make some rhubarb wine its very good
Thanks Jeff, I've read that it's good, but great to get feedback about it from someone who knows - next year!
My.plum wine has went a very deep brown colour, I did not know to top it up with boiled cool water, I hope it hasn't gone off 😔
Perhaps it's worth trying a tiny bit of it to see if it's gone off! If not and if it is still in a demi John you could top it up now. If it's already bottled, well then, no worries!
The wine looks nice, but you lost me when you sucked on that tude and placed it into the other bottle...nasty.
I get what you are saying, but this is for home consumption so it's my partner only drinking the wine and I didn't spit into the tube.