Currant wine
Currant wine is very fruity fruit wine , in Austria and Slovakia by the Austrian name for currants currant most Ribiselwein named, and formerly also known Korrianenwein (wine made from red currants) known.
White, red and black currants can be used for currant wine, but they must be well ripened and have to be ripened for a few days after the harvest. Because of the tart taste of black currants, white or red berries are mostly used. Currant wine is a beverage that can be easily manufactured even: The grapes are pressed and the juice is about 50% sugar syrup is added a double volume, and it leaves the mixture - with or without the addition of wine yeast - the fermentation . Currant wine can be made by both juice fermentation and maceration . All the fruit that has been mashed or mashed is used for the must fermentation. In this variant, the sugar is only added after the first fermentation process.
A special feature of this drink is that the addition of sugar means that the actual alcohol content is higher than usually assumed by the subjective perception. The risk of unwanted intoxication is therefore higher with this drink than with other alcoholic drinks.
The drink receives special literary appreciation in Heimito from Doderer's novel Die Strudlhofstiege or Melzer and the depth of the years .
The Ribiselweinhöhle on the Gösing in Lower Austria is named after this wine .
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Individual evidence
- ^ Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon. 5th edition. Volume 1, Leipzig 1911, p. 1010.
- ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 13, 5th edition. Ed. Bibliographer. Inst., Leipzig / Vienna 1896, pp. 99-100.
- ↑ Basic recipe: Mash fermentation .