It is December and wife Jenny bought oranges to be healthy, but later we decided we’d rather make wine from it. Orange wine is a little unusual, but there are recipes on line. Jenny and I decided o make a very sweet wine, where the yeast would die leaving the wine sweet.
Orange Wine Recipe
7 oranges, squeezed
1 lemon, squeezed
57 oz orange juice (Meijers Organic)
1 Tablespoon orange zest
3 lb 1 oz sugar
2 g yeast energizer
1 pack Lalvin 71B-1122
I measured the sugar at 13.6% (specific gravity of 13 Brix and a density of 1.05 g/ml). This would make a wine of just 6.5%. I added 3 lb of sugar to just 2.6 L of juice to bring the sugar up to 20%. The idea is for the yeast to die and leave the wine sweet.
I just converted from Red Star to Lalvin yeast. I used 71B-1122, which is for white wines, and especially wines with residual sweetness.
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2020 Follow-up: This wine turned out to be a disaster. It tasted terrible. For a while I thought I could blend it with my Riesling, but it just wrecked the Riesling. I am probably going to pour this down the drain. I mourn the lost Riesling.
2 comments:
Hi all,
This orange wine was bad idea. It had little flavor, and what it had was not pleasant.
Greg
I still have that orange Riesling. It is hard for me to throw it away.
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