Fruit wine making is a really interesting way to make a crisp and refreshing wine. Most of us live in a region where there are one or two different fruits that are in abundance. Maybe it is apples or pears, or maybe your raspberry bushes have taken over your back yard. You can use this fruit to make your very own wine. If you don’t have access to fresh fruit, you can always do a bit of fruit wine making by using juices.

Making fruit wine can be as complicated as making wine, but the results can be really phenomenal. Here are some tips that you can use to make the best possible fruit wine.

• Fruit that is really ripe makes the best wine, but if it is too ripe, you are going to have a problem with flies and bugs getting into the fruit. Learning the right time to pick the fruit is really crucial.
• Check the sugar levels with your hydrometer often. Unlike grape wine, you may have to add more sugar to get fermentation going with fruit wines, so you will have to keep an eye on your fruit. Depending on your fruit, you could be adding about 2 pounds of sugar per gallon of wine that you have.
• Fruit wine making has more things that can go wrong, but if you are prepared and know what to look for, you should be fine.
• Grape wine gets a lot of tannins from the stems; fruit wine doesn’t have these tannins so it needs additional tannins to taste great. You can steep teabags in your tea to add these tannins.
• Fruit wine can be aged for a couple of months, but it typically doesn’t get a whole lot better with age, so you can drink it as fast as you can!

Making fruit wine can be a way to shake up your wine making. Fruit wine making is a fun way to use up all that fruit in your backyard that typically goes to waste!