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    Homemade Peach Wine Recipe

    Published: Nov 6, 2020

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    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Homemade Peach Wine is a great way to keep summer flavours available year round. My peach wine recipe is easy to make, and super tasty!

    Did anyone else NOT have “Georgia saves the USA from falling to fascism” on their 2020 Bingo cards?

    Weird way to start out a food blog, but the today’s news definitely put me in the mood to share another peach recipe. I - somewhat recently - posted a roundup of Peach Recipes, but have been waiting to post our Fresh Peach Wine recipe.

    Today started out with my friend Houston messaging the phrase “Well, slap my peach and call me papa.”, something that still has me laughing, hours later.

    From there, I decided that the morning called for peach jam on *toast*, for breakfast.

    I decided to serve it the way I always to - cream cheese topped with the jam - and a friend later pointed out that if it was Philly cream cheese, that was just a whole other layer of appropriate. I hadn’t even considered it!

    Anyway, while peaches aren’t in season, and any wine you put on now won’t even be potable for a few months... it feels like the time to share this recipe.

    And hey, if you happen to have anything to celebrate, this also makes a really great sparkling wine! More on that in a bit!

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    How to Make Peach Wine

    If you haven't attempted making wine before, don't be intimidated! Check out our primer to home brewing:

    - Wine Making At Home, Part 1: Why?

    - Wine Making at Home, Part 2: Equipment to Get Started

    - Wine Making at Home, Part 3: The Brewing Process.

    - Wine Making at Home, Part 4: How to Stabilize and Back Sweeten Wine

    Just a small handful of entries, and you'll be good to go!

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Peach Wine Ingredients

    This wine recipe requires only a few ingredients to make - super simple! Here is some information about those base ingredients that you may find helpful.

    Peaches

    You can use fresh or frozen peaches to make this wine. There are just a few differences in how to use them, and things to keep in mind:

    Fresh Peaches

    When using fresh peaches, be sure to use very ripe, flavourful fruit only. Ideally, use something in-season, as off season fruit never seems to taste as good!

    I like to macerate the peaches for several hours before I start making the wine. By that, I mean I’ll pit and chop up the peaches and put them in a large bowl or pot, and stir in the sugar.

    Then, I cover and leave it for a while, to let the sugar do its thing.

    A 4 photo collage howing the progression from chopped peaches, to chopped peaches with sugar, to pacerated peaches in their own juice, to a pot with chopped peaches, sugar, and water.

    The sugar draws the natural juices - and flavour! - out from the peaches. I find this gives the best base to the wine, rather than starting with chopped fruit and water.

    Frozen Peaches

    When using frozen peaches, you can skip the maceration process. Freezing and thawing peaches - or pretty much any fruit - breaks them down in a way that ends up with a result similar to maceration.

    Be sure to use a good brand of frozen peaches, and that the peaches are good and flavourful when they thaw. If your peaches don’t have much flavour, neither will your wine.

    Sugar

    While sugar is technically optional when making wine, NOT adding any sugar will result in an INCREDIBLY dry wine.

    When you’re making wine from peaches - much like with any other light coloured, non-grape fruit - you’ll want it to have at least some residual sweetness to it, or it just won’t taste like much. The sugar helps to bring out the peach flavour!

    Sugar is an important part of wine making, and there are a few aspects of sugar to keep in mind:

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Type of Sugar

    In terms of type of sugar, we prefer to use plain white granulated sugar for this wine. Sometimes we’ll use brown sugar for part of the sugar content to give it a bit of a deeper flavour - more like a peach cobbler flavour - but generally stick to white sugar.

    Feel free to use either type, raw cane sugar, or a mixture of any/all of these.

    Note: If you’re going for the brown sugar for some or all of the sugar, try adding a vanilla bean and a cinnamon stick to your boiled mixture, leaving them in through fermentation!)

    How to Make Peach Mead

    If you’d like to make a mead rather than a wine, you can swap the sugar out for honey. We’ll usually use 4-5 lbs of honey for this.

    A couple notes:

    - I say “Peach Mead”, as that’s what most people would understand... but mead with fruit is technically called “melomel”.
    So, swapping sugar out in favour of honey would give you a peach melomel. The more you know!

    - When you’re using honey instead of sugar, you’re going to want to be careful in your choice of honey. Where white sugar is fairly neutral in flavour, honey can be aggressively flavoured.

    I recommend picking something lightly coloured and lightly flavoured - a clover or orange blossom honey, for instance.

    Something like a wildflower or buckwheat honey is likely to completely overwhelm the flavour from the peaches.

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Alcohol Content

    Aside from flavour, there’s the matter of alcohol content.

    Your wine’s final ABV will vary wildly dependent on a few things: The initial sugar content of the peaches you use, how much sugar you add, and what kind of yeast you use (more on that in a bit)

    Any amount of sugar will result in a higher alcohol content than making the same wine without sugar added. Sugar - both in the base wine itself, and from the added sugars - is what feeds the yeast, the yeast eats up the sugars and gives off alcohol as the byproduct of that process.

    More sugar = more food = more alcohol... to a point, anyway. About that...

    Yeast

    The type of yeast you use will impact the alcohol content of the final product.

    Yeast organisms don’t have an *unlimited* capacity to process sugar into alcohol. At some point, the environment they’re living in - the brewing wine - becomes too high in alcohol for the yeast to survive. They die off, the fermentation stops.

    Different types of yeast have different tolerances for alcohol in the environment. That is, some yeast will be able to survive higher amounts of alcohol in the wine, so they’ll continue producing it longer than some other types.

    Some types of yeast will bring you to something like an 8% ABV, while others will let things run wild until close to 20% ABV.

    It’s good to know what you have in mind, when you choose your yeast.

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Note: I’m going to refrain from using brand names in this section, as what’s available varies wildly between suppliers and regions! Ask your local homebrew supply shop for recommendations based on what you’re looking for.

    If you want a sweet wine with a low-ish ABV - without having to back sweeten it (more on that in a bit) - choose a yeast with a lower tolerance for alcohol.

    If you’re looking for a dry wine with a low ABV, choose a yeast with a lower tolerance for alcohol, and don’t use a ton of sugar.

    If you want a sweet wine with a high ABV, use a bunch of sugar with a high-tolerance yeast... and be prepared to backsweeten it.

    If you want a dry wine with a high ABV, use a fair amount of sugar and a high tolerance yeast.

    Making Larger Batches of Wine

    As a note, you can easily scale this wine recipe up - in fact, there's a function inside the recipe card itself to do the math for you!

    One note, though: You don't need to multiply the yeast, but the software doesn't know that. We will use one pouch of yeast for anything from 1-5x batches, and then 1 pouch for every 5x batches beyond that.

    As a related note: The recipe software is definitely geared towards cooking, not wine making. Therefore, you can pretty much ignore all of the info it gives you: The nutritional info is calculated on everything that goes into the wine.

    It does not take into account how much sugar will be fermented out, how much volume is lost to racking, the fact that the fruit pulp is removed before the final product, etc.

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    Back Sweetening Your Homemade Peach Wine

    Sometimes - usually, even - you’ll find that the yeast went a bit too far with their smorgasbord, and you end up with a peach wine that’s not as sweet as you’d like it.

    ... and that’s when you back sweeten it! You can read my How to Stabilize and Back Sweeten Wine post for information on how to back sweeten it.

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    How to Make Sparkling Peach Wine

    As I’d mentioned earlier, peach wine is especially nice as a bubbly beverage. There are two main ways to accomplish this, both of which happen AFTER fermentation has ceased.

    Note: Consult your local homebrew store for what your options are when it comes to bottling sparkling wine. As this ferments a bit in the bottle, normal wine bottles aren’t a good idea - they can explode from the extra pressure.

    We’ll usually use beer bottle and caps for any sparkling wine or sparkling ciders that we make, but there are options more along the lines of champagne bottles. Selection and brands tend to vary wildly by location.

    Anyway!

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    For Naturally Carbonated Sparkling Peach Wine

    In a small pot, mix together 1 cup of water with 1 cup of sugar or brown sugar. Use a sanitized funnel to pour this into a sanitized large carboy.

    Rack the wine over into this carboy, swirling it as you go.

    Bottle the wine into appropriate bottles, following directions for whatever kind of cap/closure you will be using.

    Allow wine to age at least a month or two – residual yeast will ferment the added sugar, carbonating the wine. Serve chilled.

    For Force-Carbonated Sparkling Wine

    Alternatively, you can rack the wine (without the added sugar syrup!) into a keg and force carbonate it, if you have the set up for that - That’s what we tend to do with our ciders.

    A glass of pale peach coloured wine, with 2 fresh peaches at the base of the glass.

    More Home Brewing Recipes!

    While you've got your current homebrew fermenting away, why not consider putting a batch of something else on, to occupy your wait time? Here are a few of my other wine, cider, and mead recipes:

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    Mead Recipes

    Black Cherry Mead Recipe
    Blueberry-Clementine Mead Recipe
    Blueberry Mead Recipe
    Clementine Mead Recipe
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    Wildflower Mead Recipe

    Cider & Miscellaneous Homebrew Recipes

    Hard Apple Cider Recipe
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    Anyway, on to that Peach Wine Recipe!

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    Homemade Peach Wine

    Homemade Peach Wine is a great way to keep summer flavours available year round. My peach wine recipe is easy to make, and super tasty!
    Prep Time3 hrs
    Cook Time1 hr
    Resting time120 d
    Total Time120 d 4 hrs
    Course: Beverage
    Cuisine: French
    Servings: 1 Gallon
    Calories: 5790kcal
    Author: Marie Porter

    Equipment

    Large pot
    Slotted Spoon
    Large wire strainer
    2 gallon fermenter bucket and lid
    1 air lock and stopper
    Long spoon / paddle
    2 1 gallon carboys
    Siphon, siphon tubing.

    Ingredients

    • 4 Lbs Fresh peaches
    • 6 cups Granulated Sugar
    • 1 gallon Spring Water
    • 1 cup Golden Raisins
    • 1 teaspoon Acid Blend
    • 1 teaspoon Yeast Nutrient
    • ½ teaspoon Pectinase / Pectic enzyme
    • Yeast

    Instructions

    • Wash peaches and chop them into small chunks.
    • Add peaches to a large pot. Add sugar, stir well. Cover and let it sit for a few hours, stirring every once in a while.
    • After about 2-3 hours, the sugar should have nicely macerated the peaches. Add As much of the water as your pot can handle, bring ALMOST to a boil.
    • Once water starts bubbling, turn the temp to low and simmer for 1 hour. Think more “keep it warm”, than any kind of active simmer.
    • While the pot is simmering, prepare your fermenter bucket:
    • Wash and sanitize a 2 gallon plastic fermenter, lid, stopper, and air lock.
    • Place raisins, acid blend, yeast nutrient, and pectic enzyme into the plastic fermenter.
    • Affix the stopper to the lid of the fermenter, cover and set aside.
    • Once the hour is up, remove from heat, allow to cool.*
    • Carefully pour peaches and water into the fermenter. Top up with any remaining water.
    • Affix air lock to lid, cover the bucket, and allow to fully cool over night. For the sake of consistency in readings - and therefore accuracy in ABV calculations - this should be done where you plan to let the wine ferment for the next few months - usually a basement.
    • The next morning, check the Specific Gravity and write it down in your notes, along with the date.
    • Add yeast to the fermenter bucket, stir with a long, sanitized spoon. Affix the lid, allow to sit for 24 hours.
    • The next day, check to make sure that the yeast has started fermenting - there should be bubbles in the airlock, and/or foam in the liquid.
    • Put the lid back on, allow to ferment for one week.
    • After a week or so, use your sanitized siphon setup to rack the must into a freshly sanitized carboy. Put the carboy somewhere cool (not cold!), and leave it alone for a month or so.
    • Using sanitized equipment, rack the peach wine off the sediment, into a clean, freshly sanitized carboy. Cap with sanitized airlock, leave it alone for another 1 month.
    • Rack one more time, leave it for another 2 months or so.
    • When your wine has been racked a few times and shows NO more fermenting activity for a month or so (no bubbles in the airlock, no more sediment being produced, you can move on to bottling.
    • Follow the instructions on your selected type of wine stabilizer to stop fermentation from restarting. For potassium sorbate, this needs to be done 2-3 days before bottling.
    • Using sanitized equipment, take a gravity reading, then rack the wine into clean, sanitized bottles. Cork.

    Notes

    *It doesn’t have to be all the way to room temperature, just cool enough that if it splashes on you, it won’t hurt - that’s a good guideline!
    IMPORTANT:
    Software generates nutritional information based on the ingredients as they start, and is unable to account for the sugars consumed in the fermentation process. As such, the calories, sugars, and carbs are shown WAY higher than reality.
    Additionally, the listed value is for the entire recipe, NOT per serving.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 5790kcal | Carbohydrates: 1488g | Protein: 21g | Fat: 5g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 219mg | Potassium: 4529mg | Fiber: 33g | Sugar: 1436g | Vitamin A: 5915IU | Vitamin C: 124mg | Calcium: 311mg | Iron: 8mg

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    Comments

    1. Nikki W

      February 21, 2021 at 1:50 pm

      5 stars
      I would like to make this with peach concentrate. How much concentrate is equal to the 4# of peaches in recipe? TIA

      Reply
      • Marie Porter

        February 21, 2021 at 2:52 pm

        What do you mean by peach concentrate? What are the ingredients?

        Reply
    2. Jim

      August 08, 2021 at 11:48 am

      Hey I've been making fruit wines for many years, just started a 6 gal. batch from part of the harvest of my peach trees. Your recipe and instructions should result in a nice peach wine even for novices, nice job! Of all the wines I make the peach is one of my favorites, never a bad batch! Happy wine making!

      Reply
    3. Nikki D

      September 04, 2022 at 6:26 pm

      Hi , my husband and I are new to wine making. I would like to know if the raisins in the peach wine are optional or not. I can’t wait to get started on this , we have already picked our peaches

      Reply
      • Marie Porter

        September 04, 2022 at 6:50 pm

        You can skip them if you like, they just give a bit more body to the wine.

        Reply
        • Nikki

          September 04, 2022 at 7:39 pm

          Thanks so much for getting back to me. I will be starting first thing in the morning

          Reply
    4. Nikki

      September 05, 2022 at 3:54 pm

      I am making 4 gallons of the peach wine. I used the calculator in the recipe. I know you said about not adding more yeast unless you are doing 5 gallons. My question is this. Yeast is listed twice on the ingredients the one says add 4 tsp of yeast nutrient and the other just says yeast ( which I am assuming just means the yeast packet. Am I still only just using 1 tsp of yeast nutrient and 1 packet of yeast ? I have my peaches all cut up and Macerating right now. So excited !!

      Reply
      • Marie Porter

        September 05, 2022 at 4:04 pm

        Yeast is the yeast packet, yeast nutrient is a supplement to the yeast. YOu can skip it if you don't have any, though.

        Reply

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