2 gallons of homemade plum wine from my own tree and it is far too sweet can I rectify this without blending with any other wine.
2006-09-15 03:41:25 · 11 answers · asked by lynvonwall 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Beer, Wine & Spirits
add an eggcup of distilled vinegar
2006-09-15 03:50:40 · answer #1 · answered by Dixiegambler . 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If your wine has finished fermenting the only way way to make it less sweet is to blend it with a dry wine. If you want to retain the plum taste the best wine to blend it with is probably rhubarb as this will not effect the finished taste, whereas most other wines will. You will, of course, have to have some rhubarb wine available to be able to do this and it may be too late in the year to start making it now. You could keep the plum wine until next spring when you will be able to get some rhubarb but if you can't wait until then try mixing it with some sugar-free lemonade.
I have found through experience this can sometimes make an over-sweet wine more palatable. Also, it makes the wine last longer and doesn't have too much affect on the taste or strength of the wine.
2006-09-15 12:33:09 · answer #2 · answered by Birdy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you could try this.......use a small amount of the wine with perhaps 1/3rd water....find a lalvin champagne yeast, i think the number is 1122, its green writing on the packet, use a 2 gallon demijohn with an air lock, restart the wine, add the rest of the wine as the yeast starts, in batches, lalvin is a high alcohol yeast, let it ferment out until the yeast dies, that should get rid of some of the sugar. It should work..GL
2006-09-15 10:52:57 · answer #3 · answered by manx4080 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If memory serves, plum wine is naturally sweet. It's probably doing exactly what it's supposed to.
If it's already fermented, I don't think there's much you can do outside of blending if you don't lke the flavor.
2006-09-15 11:59:15 · answer #4 · answered by spacejohn77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That happens sometimes. Next year your wine will be better!
I can't think of a base that would dilute the sweatiness without dilling the proof.
Add plum juice and a base like everclear?
2006-09-15 10:46:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Add more yeast if it has stopped, if it is still working let it carry on, it will be much stronger but it is better than the sweetness; you could use it now as a dessert wine
2006-09-15 10:48:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All you can do is blend it with a dryer wine. Someone once suggested adding cider vinegar, but I've never tried this. Might be worth a crack
2006-09-15 10:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by tmctagga 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont think you can.. try blendind it with some similar wine thats dry. you can sweeten wine . but you cant take the sweetness away.
2006-09-15 10:49:49 · answer #8 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can I have it I like sweet things!
2006-09-15 10:50:19 · answer #9 · answered by kerrykinsmalosevich 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try distilling it, but don't get caught...
2006-09-16 11:47:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋