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INGREDIENTS:
- 2 2/3 lb mixed cooking apples
- 1/2 lb blackcurrants
- 1 tsp tartaric acid
- 1 lb freshly picked elderberries
- 1 lb freshly picked blackberries
- 1 lb freshly picked black plums or damsons
- 2 lb sugar
- 9 oz grape juice concentrate
- 6 pints water
- pectic enzyme
- burgundy yeast
- nutrient
STEP BY STEP:
- Wash, stalk and mash all the fruit, place in a bin and pour hot water over it. When cool, stir in the acid, pectic enzyme and one Campden tablet, cover and leave for 24 hours.
- Stir in the grape juice, yeast and nutrient and ferment on the pulp for four days, pressing down the fruit cap daily.
- Strain out the fruit, stir in the sugar, pour the must into a fermentation jar, fit an airlock and ferment out.
- Rack into a clean jar, add one crushed Campden tablet and when the wine is bright, rack again.
- Mature this wine for at least one year and serve it free from chill.
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