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Dried Fruit Sweet Red Wine

A sweet red wine made from dried fruit, sugar syrup, grape concentrate, and yeast.

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Why it works: Banana and grape work together. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 496 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Dried Fruit Sweet Red Wine

Time4 days

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Activate the yeast in a starter bottle.

  2. Boil the sugar in 0.5 litre water until it is a syrup and leave it to cool. Store it in a stoppered container.

  3. Wash, dry and chop the dried fruit. Place them in a fermentation bucket and pour 2.5 litres boiling water over them. Stir well, cover and leave for 24 hours, stirring twice more during this time.

Ferment

  1. After 24 hours add the grape concentrate, the additives, 0.5 litres of the sugar syrup and the yeast culture. Cover it and leave for 4 days for fermentation to start, stirring at least once a day.

  2. Strain the liquid from the pulp into a jar, fit an airlock, and put it in a warm place to ferment, shaking it daily. When the fermentation dies down, add more sugar syrup, about 140 ml, until either all the sugar is used or the fermentation ceases.

Mature

  1. Leave to settle and rack when a sediment is formed. This wine will take a long time to mature and is best left in the jar than being bottled.

  2. It is advisable to top up after racking with either grape concentrate or a fruit juice.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

694Calories
15 gProtein
2 gFat
158 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 5 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Date1 date (24g) medjool66
Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Red Grape1/2 cup (76g)62
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Banana + grapetop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together496 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Dates + bananatop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

  3. Raisin + datestop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together358 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Dates + grapetop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together108 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Raisin + sugartop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together12,481 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Sultanas
Provide sugars and body, softening into the wine's fruity base.
Raisins
Add concentrated sugar and fruit flavour to the must.
Dried elderberries
Contribute colour, tannin and fruity character to the red wine.
Granulated white sugar
Feeds the yeast, producing alcohol and carbon dioxide during fermentation.
Red grape concentrate
Supplies fermentable sugar and grape flavour for the red wine.

The step that matters

Adding sugar syrup in stages. Adding sugar gradually rather than all at once keeps the yeast from being overwhelmed by sugar, which can stall fermentation and leave the wine sweeter than intended.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (dates, banana, grape, sugar):

  1. Figfits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against dates, banana, grape, sugar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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