An Area for Recipes/Methods for Grape and Country Wines and other information

If you have a favourite recipe, or other valuable information/winemaking methods it may be uploaded to this section by contacting info@fawg.org.au.  The recipes are best used as a base to scale up the quantities, or modify them to suit your tastes. 

How to Make Country Wines

Basic country winemaking method 

Country wine recipe download here

Recipe devised by David Wood

Jack Keller's Requested Recipes

Download an archive of Texan Jack Keller's recipes provided for posterity

Thanks to Zenon Kolacz for sourcing this resource

Rhubarb Champagne

Rhubarb Champagne is an old traditional sparkling 'soft drink' which is produced with no yeast and a short time in the 'fermenting vessel'  It has little or no alcohol content.  Serve icy cold on a hot summer's day!

Download the recipe here

Recipe sourced by David Wood from abc.net.au

John Lee Gold Medal Wines

These recipes are presented as 'decoded' from John's recipe cards - they may not be 100% accurate and rely on our interpretation of some of his abbreviations

Download recipes here

Recipes transcribed by David & Fiona Wood

Chris Myers
Gold Medal  recipes

Chris Myers gold medal recipes date back to 1981.  Chris is our 'master winemaker' having won the WOTY a total of 12 times.   These recipes were 'discovered' in a cache of  winemaking  paraphernalia donated by an ex-member

Download recipes here

Thanks to Chris Myers for allowing the reproduction of these recipes

Persimmon Wine

This recipe is based on wild persimmons. Persimmons may require a close watch for time of ripening. In my area of central Oklahoma they ripen soon after the first frost and near Thanksgiving. Persimmons can be very bitter if picked too soon but at the peak of ripeness they have a taste to me that is like a cross between honey and a fig with a hint of pumpkin

Download the recipe here

Recipe sourced by Zenon Kolacz

Elderflower Wine

This wine can be made from fresh, frozen or dried Elderflowers

Download recipe here

Recipe transcribed by  David Wood

Making Country Wines

Home Brew Answers website has a section on making country wines

https://homebrewanswers.com/wine-recipes/

Thanks to Zenon Kolacz

FAWG Frankston Amateur Winemakers Guild