Handcraft Supplies Dried Elderberries 500g

Dried Elderberries 500g are a traditional ingredient for full-bodied red country wines. Elderberries bring deep purple colour, plenty of tannin and a rich, fruity flavour, and buying them dried means you can make elderberry wine at any time of year.

Key features

• 500 g of dried elderberries
• Packed in a nitrogen-flushed, air-tight sachet
• Gives strong colour and tannin to red fruit wines
• Can be used on its own or blended with other fruit

How to use

Soak or simmer the berries to draw out colour and flavour, then strain through Muslin Bags. Dried berries are more concentrated than fresh, so follow a recipe written for dried elderberries.

Ingredients that go with it

• Gervin GV11 Red Fruit Wine Yeast
• Brewing & Winemaking Sugar and Citric Acid to balance the must
• Yeast Nutrient for a healthy, complete ferment
• Pectolase 30g to help prevent haze

A favourite with country-wine makers who want a proper red with body and colour. See also our dried fruit, botanicals and oak chips.