WARE WINE AND BEER CIRCLE TABLE RED WINES USING FRUIT

Factors in Making Good Wines Hygiene Recipe Ingredient quality Techniques of extraction Adjustment/blending

Table Red Wine Characteristics Reasonable acidity Tannin, but not too much Not too strongly flavoured Alcohol 12-13% Body, fruit and bouquet Colour

Constructing Recipes Found in old recipe book! 4lb raspberries 4lb redcurrants 4lb sugar

Constructing Recipes Found in old recipe book! 4lb raspberries 4lb redcurrants 4lb sugar The Problem Getting sufficient body without excess of Acidity Tannin Fruit

Potential Ingredients Major Blackberry Elderberry Bilberry Sloe Minor Blackcurrant, Cherry, Damson, Raspberry Apple, Pear

Ingredient Characteristics AcidTanninAromaFlavour Blackberry MedLowHigh Elderberry LowV highLowMed Bilberry LowMed High Sloe MedV highMed

Ingredient Characteristics AcidTanninAromaFlavour BlackcurrantV highMed CherryLow HighV high DamsonHighLowMed LoganberryHighLowV highHigh RaspberryHighLowV highMed AppleMedLowMed PearLowHighLowMed

Summary of Characteristics Colour – Elderberry, Bilberry Bouquet – Cherry, Raspberry, Loganberry, Blackberry Acid – Blackcurrant, Damson, Loganberry Fruit – Bilberry, Blackberry, Cherry, Damson, Loganberry Body – Blackberry, Bilberry Tannin – Elderberry, Sloe, Pear

Additions Grapes Juice Concentrate Dried Acid Tartaric, citric, malic Oak Other fruit – bananas, dates, figs

Techniques - 1 Preparation Stoning, freezing Must sterilisation Sulphite, pasteurisation Must Preparation Juicing Boiling Pulp fermentation Timing of fruit addition

Techniques - 2 Sparging Fermentation Temperature Sugar addition Clearing Racking, finings, filtering Storage Bottling Ageing

Tasting – Rioja Style Commercial Beaverdale Kit Grape (Tempranillo/Garnacha) Fruit Recipe 1lb elderberries 1lb blackberries 1lb 8 oz sloes 4 oz bananas 4 oz raspberries 500 ml red concentrate, ½ oz oak granules

Tasting Results Wine Panel View Comm Kit Fruit Grape Actual Pref. 10%33%47%20% fruit0% 253%0%33%14%comm25% 340%20%7%33%kit50% 47%47%14%33%grape25%

Tasting Results Wine Panel View Comm Kit Fruit Grape Actual Pref. 1%% Fruit% 2%%Comm% 3%%Kit% 4%%Grape%