raspberry wine?

[barefootlinzi]

has anyone ever made this? the house next door is currently empty and i have been *ahem* borrowing from the 2 raspberry bushes in the garden (its over grown, not sure the last owner even knew they were there) and wondering if i will get enough to make into wine....has anyone got a recipe? i will probably only use one demijohn as there arent a huge amount of raspberries.

[MKG]

Very, very cloying - raspberry can be an overwhelming flavour and, if it's the only fruit in a wine, it is overwhelming. Some people say that raspberries should never form more than a quarter of the fruit, and I tend to agree with them. Mixing the berries with something more insipid (apples are good) always gives you a better wine.

[Birdie Wife]

Rhubarb combines superbly with raspberry and has the same beautiful colour (see my post in the rhubarb wine thread posted two minutes ago!).

[barefootlinzi]

oh that sounds lovely. do you have a recipe?

[Birdie Wife]

Somewhere! I remember making it up using half a rhubarb wine recipe and half a raspberry wine recipe and just combining in a demijohn, but afterwards I found an actual recipe for rhubarb and raspberry wine in a different book. Doh!

[ninjascarecrows]

i'm currently making raspberry and white grape wine (the raspberrys from the plot the white grape juice from the supermarket, you don't get much more ish than that ) i basically used a quater of a demijohn of raspberry juice and toped it up with grape juice and used a gervain no2 sachet of yeast, actually i only half filled the demijohn to begin with and i'm glad i did coz it went CRAZY!! for about a week i had a demijohn of rather spectacular looking bright pink throth! any hoo, it's now been toppped up and it's gently glugging away merrily next to me, if i get a chance i'll post a pic (shame i didn't get one at the bright pink and throthy stage) i'll keep you posted on how it's going and of course i'll let you know what it's like when i get round to drinking it. . . .

jo