Elderflower Wine Making Recipe

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75g fresh elderflowers which is approximately 3/4 of pint of elderflower petals lightly pressed down or 12.5g dried elderflowers, yeast, wine tannin, yeast nutrient, 1.5kg Sugar, 4.5 litres/ 1 gallon Water,150ml white wine concentrate , 3 Lemons

If using fresh elderflowers pick fully opened ones and trim the petals away from the stem

Boil the water and pour over the elderflowers, add sugar (mix thoroughly to dissolve) white wine concentrate and lemon juice

Leave to cool (approx 21 degrees C) and add wine tannin, yeast and yeast nutrient

Cover and leave wine to ferment in a warm place for 5 days

After this time strain into a demi john, fit an airlock and leave to fermenting in the warm until bubbling stops or hydrometer reading is 1.000 or below

Siphon into a clean demi john leaving the sediment behind, put in a cold place to clear

When clear syphon into wine bottles and store