Making wine from frozen fruit

[Chickenlady]

In my freezer I have raspberries, blackberries and whitecurrants, which I want to use up in some nice fruit wine. Anybody got any tried and tested recipes that could use all three? I have only made a kit wine before, so I am a bit nervous.

[The Chili Monster]

Never tried it myself, but here's a recipe for mixed fruit wine that can be found on this site:
http://www.selfsufficientish.com/wine.htm
I can probably dig out individual recipes for whitecurrant wine, blackberry wine and raspberry wine.

[Sandy]

Hi Chickenlady, best winemaking forum I've found for country wines is:

http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/cgi/yabb/YaBB.cgi

Good luck!

[Chickenlady]

Ooh thanks! I will have a look. ( should have checked SS first!

[The Chili Monster]

The link to that forum you posted, Sandy, seems useful. Now I have got some equipment through freecycle, I'm itching to try out some recipes.

[elfcurry]

I've grown blackcurrants for some years and often to put them in the freezer to avoid deciding to what to do with them. There were quite a few bags in there but I didn't think much about them.

Last November my freezer packed up and largely defrosted so I did a triage operation on all the contents (friend's freezer, use now or throw away).

The fruit didn't smell odd and I didn't feel that it would be dangerous but I was a bit worried about eating it direct so I made several batches of wine. I reasoned that if the yeast enzymes were happy to digest the sugar without being poisoned, I'd probably be OK too.

The wine seems the same as using much more recent fruit.

I'm too embarassed to admit how long it had been there but some years. Yes. Quite a few. Remember Tory governments?

But I promise not inflict it on anyone else not until I've sampled it MUCH more thoroughly.