Lavender Wine

Ingredients:

• ¼ to ½ cup dried lavender flowers (off the stems)
• ½ lemon
• tin of white grape concentrate
• 2½ lbs sugar
• yeast
• yeast nutrient
• water - to make 1 gallon of wine

Method:

• Pour 2 pints of boiling water onto the dried flowers and the chopped up lemon.
• Allow to sit, covered, for 3 days - removing the lemon a few hours after you start.
• Dissolve the sugar in hot water and add to the strained of lavender liquor in a demijohn.
• Add grape juice concentrate, yeast nutrient and activated yeast.
• Fit fermenting lock and ferment until finished and clear topping up with water when initial phase has calmed down.

Note - this made a very unusual tasting wine that finished at 18%.
The Lavender taste came out more and more over time and became a zesty fresh flavour. It might not be to everyone's taste and I would treat it as an aperitif not a table wine.
Lovely if served slightly chilled as an appetiser on a hot summer day.

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