This may seem a strange wine to make, but is quite enjoyable.
It is also cheap to make just use old tea and or used tea bags. If you want you can use new tea made just for the purpose. I’ll assume you are making from scratch for this receipe.
I have just made three lots of this wine a gallon of wine at a time.
I’ve also produced a short video so you can see making one of the team wines, click here.
It produces a nice full flavoured wine and depending on how much raisins are added the colour can appear quite dark.
Ingredients
1 Gallon of tea. That is approx 20 tea bags. I have done this with PG Tips, Lapsang Shoosong and Red Bush. I suggest trying it with any tea you fancy though. You could of course use old tea kept from the pot.
Juice of 2 lemons
2lb of Sugar (I actually use 1Kg)
100 grams of Raisins
Yeast
Process
Slice the lemons and add to the hot tea
Add the sugar and stir
Once the tea has cooled to around 20 degree’s centigrade and the yeast
Leave in a bucket for a week. Covered with a tea towel. Stir daily
After a week transfer the liquid to a demijohn and put in an airlock.
Allow to continue to ferment.
Once fermentation has stopped out cad add a Camden table to stop any further fermentation. I prefer not to.
Once cleared you can bottle and drink but it will improve with age.