Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Tea & Mint Wine

A Small Peg of Information
This is a very refreshing wine. At the end of the day it soothes your senses to have the flavour and coolness of mint in your mouth. This wine takes a lot of time to clear about 3 to 4 months but let me assure you that it does not take a very long time for this wine to polished off the bottle.
Ingredients.
1) 100 gms peppermint leaves.
2) 1.2 lts. hot tea(strong or light is as per your choice)
3) 250 ml white grape juice
4) 10 gms yeast
5) 750 gms sugar
6) 2 gms citric acid
7) Vitamin B capsules 2
Method
1) Place sugar and white grape juice in a jar.
2) Add the washed and bruised(crushed) mint leaves(excluding stalks).
3) Strain the hot tea into it. Stir to mix the sugar.
4) When cool add the citric acid B cap. and the yeast.
5) Cover and leave aside for 5 days.
6) Strain into a clean sterelized jar.
7) Rack when wine clears(approx three/ four months).

1 comment:

Carol said...

Could you please specify what type of white grape juice is used here, is the fresh white grapes crused or the boxed grape juice. Thank you for an excellent collection of wine recipes.