May is the time of the year when plums are ripe. It is also the heavyweight fruit of early summer!
Plums, also known as prunes and sour plums, are born in early spring and ripen in early summer. Its sweet and sour taste makes you salivate at the thought of it, giving it a “first love smell”, like the scent on your teeth and cheeks. Of course, for food, I think more of that mellow jar of plum wine! I remember when she was a child, whenever green plums came into the market, she would always buy a lot of them and then add white wine to make green plum wine. It was sweet and sour, but it tasted very refreshing.
If midsummer is a good time to get drunk on plum wine, then this early summer is a good time to get drunk on plums. However, if you want your plum wine to taste good, you must first choose plums, otherwise it will affect the taste of the wine~ How to make plum wine? Follow these steps and you will have a delicious wine!
Tips for choosing plums
1. Appearance: Choose plums based on their size, green color, and no damage to the surface.
2、Odor: High-quality plums have an aromatic odor and a mellow acidity. If it is sweet, it means cochineal plum and big green plum.
3、Taste: High-quality plum will not cause stomach acidity and will not harm the stomach. The deterioration of plum mainly shows in the soft flesh and poor taste.
If we buy them for drinking, we must choose green fruits with firm flesh. Ripe or wounded plums with drizzle can cloud the fermented wine.
How to make plum wine?
The use of plums can effectively reduce the degree of white wine. The key is the sweet and sour taste of plums, which can bring out the sweet, mellow, astringent and sweet taste of the wine.
So, how do we make plum wine at home? You can master the following steps!
Half a kilogram of plums, 200 grams of sugar, 1 kilogram of white wine, 1L sealed glass container
Soak the selected plums in water for 3-4 hours, change the water 4-5 times and gently scrub twice to remove any wool and dust floating on the surface. Then use a toothpick to remove the stems of the plums and wipe the water off the surface with a kitchen towel.
Be careful not to poke the flesh when removing the stems, as this may affect the taste by precipitation during the brewing process.
The glass jars were highly sterilized with white wine and wiped dry to keep the jars water-free. A layer of plums and a layer of rock sugar were then laid into the bottle, and more rock sugar was pressed into the lid of the bottle. Then pour in the same proportion of high alcohol, seal with the lid and leave in a cool place away from light for six months. It tastes better after a year of steeping.
High white wine has a cleaner, mellower and faster flavor. More importantly, high precision white wine can effectively prevent plum mold.
