WARE WINE AND BEER CIRCLE

1. WARE WINE AND BEER CIRCLE TABLE RED WINES USING FRUIT

2. Factors in Making Good Wines • Hygiene • Recipe • Ingredient quality • Techniques of extraction • Adjustment/blending

3. Table Red Wine Characteristics • Reasonable acidity • Tannin, but not too much • Not too strongly flavoured • Alcohol 12-13% • Body, fruit and bouquet • Colour

4. Found in ‘old’ recipe book! 4lb raspberries 4lb redcurrants 4lb sugar Constructing Recipes

5. Found in ‘old’ recipe book! 4lb raspberries 4lb redcurrants 4lb sugar The Problem Getting sufficient body without excess of Acidity Tannin Fruit Constructing Recipes

6. Potential Ingredients • Major • Blackberry • Elderberry • Bilberry • Sloe • Minor • Blackcurrant, Cherry, Damson, Raspberry • Apple, Pear

7. Ingredient Characteristics

8. Ingredient Characteristics

9. Summary of Characteristics • Colour – Elderberry, Bilberry • Bouquet – Cherry, Raspberry, Loganberry, Blackberry • Acid – Blackcurrant, Damson, Loganberry • Fruit – Bilberry, Blackberry, Cherry, Damson, Loganberry • Body – Blackberry, Bilberry • Tannin – Elderberry, Sloe, Pear

10. Additions • Grapes • Juice • Concentrate • Dried • Acid • Tartaric, citric, malic • Oak • Other fruit – bananas, dates, figs

11. Techniques - 1 • Preparation • Stoning, freezing • Must sterilisation • Sulphite, pasteurisation • Must Preparation • Juicing • Boiling • Pulp fermentation • Timing of fruit addition

12. Techniques - 2 • Sparging • Fermentation • Temperature • Sugar addition • Clearing • Racking, finings, filtering • Storage • Bottling • Ageing

13. Tasting – Rioja Style • Commercial • Beaverdale Kit • Grape (Tempranillo/Garnacha) • Fruit Recipe • 1lb elderberries • 1lb blackberries • 1lb 8 oz sloes • 4 oz bananas • 4 oz raspberries • 500 ml red concentrate, ½ oz oak granules

14. Tasting Results