Dragonfruit Wine Recipes

DRAGONFRUIT WINE

Steps:

• Put water on to boil.
• Meanwhile, carefully trim the greenery from the fruit, wash the fruit well, and chop it coarsely.
• Put chopped fruit, acid blend, sugar and yeast nutrient into primary.
• When water boils, pour into primary and stir until sugar dissolves.
• Cover with a sanitized cloth and set aside to cool.
• When at room temperature, add crushed Campden tablet and stir.
• Recover primary and set aside for 6-8 hours.
• Add pectic enzyme, stir, recover primary, and set aside another 6-8 hours.
• Add activated yeast.
• Stir daily for 7 days.
• Strain through nylon straining bag and squeeze juice out of fruit pulp.
• Transfer liquid to secondary, top up if required and fit airlock.
• Rack, top up and refit airlock every 30 days until wine clears and no new sediments form during a 30-day period.
• Stabilize, sweeten to taste, wait 3 weeks, and, if no renewed fermentation, rack into bottles.
• Like most wines, it should improve with age.