This refreshing white wine is great on hot summer days. The mint really comes through, followed by the lime and a hint of cucumber. Plus, it’s super easy to make using store bought juice.
Cucumber Lime Mint Wine
Difficulty: EasyIngredients & Equipment
2 x 64 oz Langers Cucumber Lime Mint juice
2 cups sugar
One gallon glass jug
Lalvin EC-1118 yeast
Bentonite
Fermax yeast nutrient
Directions
- Pour 2 cups of juice from one 64 oz bottle and save for drinking (or backsweetening later)
- Pour remaining 64 oz bottle of juice and the other bottle of juice into the gallon jug
- Add 2 cups of sugar and stir or shake until sugar is dissolved
- Take a hydrometer ready – the SG should be 1.080
- Add 1/4 tsp of bentonite
- Add 1/4 tsp of yeast nutrient
- Add EC-1118 yeast
- Stir or shake until ingredients are well mixed
- Ferment until the hydrometer reads 1.000 or less
- Rack into a clean glass jug, leaving behind any yeast that has fallen to the bottom
- Leave until clear or use Sparkolloid as directed for faster clearing
- Add Potassium Sorbate and Campden tablet (if desired for stabilizing)
- Bottle