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Interesting suggestion! I hadn't thought yet of using another juice to sweeten. Would you use a highly concentrated prune juice, or just regular juice (that you would drink straight up usually)? Thanks for sharing the result of your taste test :)

Thank you so much for that clarification, that's very valuable information. I guess the alternative would be using wine conditioner, which includes sorbate (and I'm guessing, already in the right ratio to the sweetener in the mix).

@CortneyD Thank you for sharing your approach! @Rojoguio Thanks for the tip on Wine Conditioner! Sounds like a good idea to use a more neutral sugar rather than something with a more opinionated taste. I need to taste more carefully to figure out if some of the undesirable flavour is coming...

Hi @Ohio Bob, I am 0% Danish by genes, but have lived here long enough to feel a decent chunk Danish too! To clarify: There are only two people involved: my wife is my fellow wine maker :) We both feel the current state of our plum wine has lots of room for improvement. My wife just thinks...

Background How we made our first plum wine batch Last year we moved to a house with a plum tree that treated us generously with ripe and tasty fruit. We froze the leftover fruit (about 20kg) and turned it mid-winter into the beginnings of plum wine. Adding about 12kg (26.5 lbs) of sugar, we...