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AGRIMONY - WINE

This recipe is for 5 gallons (19L) of incredible wine!

10	Pints	Agrimony
5	Gallons	Water
10	Pounds	Sugar
2½	Pounds	Sultanas
2½	Teaspoons	Tannin
½	Teaspoon	Citric Acid
1¼	Teaspoons	Malic Acid
1¼	Teaspoons	Tartaric Acid
5	Ounces	Lactose
1	Package	Wine Yeast

METHOD:

1. Wash the agrimony in cold running water, put in plastic bucket, and pour over 2.5 gallons of boiling water. Cover and leave for three days, stirring twice daily. Put the sugar and chopped sultanas into another bucket, and pour 2.5 gallons of boiling water over them.
2. Add tea from agrimony to sultanas. Straining all pulp in nylon straining bag.
3. Stir in all other ingredients EXCEPT lactose. Cover primary.
4. Primary ferment for 7 days, stirring 3 times daily.
5. Siphon wine off sediment into glass secondary (5.0 gallon Carboy). Attach airlock.
6. Siphon off sediment into clean glass secondary at monthly intervals. Reattach airlock.
7. Bottle when the wine has been six months in the making, adding the lactose solution.

NOTE:

Use the leaves of the plant; the whole plant can be used to make tea (NB - it is illegal to uproot wild plants.