Passion Fruit Time

[FlamingoEmporium]

Well I have enough frozen and fresh passion fruit to start a one gallon batch. This recipe was one of my first and best tasting wines. Added a bit of frozen mango to this batch and will ferment it to a dry wine. Think I’m going to use D47 in this one

I’m planning on adding a little fresh juice as well after it sits a while in secondary.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Yeast pitched. It’s firing off and looking good. It was so tasty last night as a juice. Hoping it tastes Good as a wine. This one will be for personal use and not gifting.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Into secondary at 1.014. I actually got 1 1/2 gallons.

i might share one bottle

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

10 days in and it’s starting to clear now. Another 10 days or so I’ll rack and add a little fresh passion fruit juice and let it go for a while.

 

[Flufnagel]

It’s one of my favorite fruits when acquired fresh. When visiting Hawaii we gorged on them. Wine looks amazing! Good luck with it.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

It’s getting a real nice color as it clears

 

[Rice_Guy]

I actually got 1 1/2 gallons. i might share one bottle

You have me jealous! Passion fruit is one of my favorite aromatics.

 

[ratflinger]

I made some out of the Pindo fruit from our tree, it fermented DRY. I'm going to use it experimentally with a Sav. Blanc

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

I made some out of the Pindo fruit from our tree, it fermented DRY. I'm going to use it experimentally with a Sav. Blanc

I had to look that one up. We have tons of palms with similar fruit and they can be used for jams etc but I don’t know if I’ve seen a pindo. I guess it’s called a wine palm in some areas.

 

[ratflinger]

There was too much pulp to get a good SG, but it fermented without any sugar added.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

First racking. Original SG 1.102. Now it’s .990. That’s 15. something !
Didn’t taste as powerfully strong as SG indicates which is good. It lost most of its fruit taste unfortunately. I added about 1 1/2 oz of fresh passion juice (all the fruit I had available. New blossoms setting now) This one will definitely need a bit of backsweetening. just enough to give it a little flavor.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Wow two days after first racking and this is really clear

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

I bottled the 1/2 gallon part of this batch. SG was .988. Checks in at 15.5% tasted like high test. 2 tbsp of sugar tamed it a little and I’m drinking a glass now. It is quite pleasant. The gallon will Age a few months more.