Pluot fruit

[fedup]

Any one made wine from them? Your thoughts?

 

[TedLarsen]

Yeah, I made some last year. I love pluots, love the sweet tartness of them. I was trying to make a dry table wine, so I did not backsweeten at all.

It came out very very tart. The taste of the pluots was in the front, and was nice; but there was a bite of tartness in the aftertaste that was not pleasant. If I didn't backsweeten, at least I should probably have balanced the acid a little better. I'm going to age it in the bottles for a year (or probably two). I think (hope) it will mellow out then.

 

[barryjo]

I did a batch of pluot last year. Out here, the fruit we get has been picked early and doesn't have much flavor. So I added 6-5.5 oz cans of apricot nectar and 3 pounds of black plums to the 11 pounds of pluots. 2 gal water. sg = 1.090. It came out good.