Blood Plum Wine Experiment

I decided awhile ago to try another fruit wine after the Cheery and Lychee wine. I tried a very small portion of fruit to see just what kind of goodness I was dealing with.

This wine, Blood Plum, looked very red and very blood like when this whole thing started. Over time the blood plum (with honey) took on a new color and character.
After a few weeks I ended up with this. A pink colored liquid and a lot of crap on the bottom the demijohn which I am guess contains yeast cells, sediment, and dead yeast cells.YUM! :D

From here I siphoned off a bottle of wine which is currently in the refrigerator you see in the background. I did the same thing with the cheery and lychee wine when I thought it a complete failure only to try it weeks later and see it turned out not half bad!

So this photo here is the 2nd rack off which in the first I tried my damnedest to kill off all the yeast cells and let it settle for another week and half.

So while YES I should be racking off this wine to age properly over a few months, I don't feel this was the best size to test on. The surface area to liquid ratio is huge - so my area for failure is large. Might as well just drink the damn stuff :)
So I got a bottle. Yes that is where my story was going, and I dubiously pored out a glass of the stuff towards the bottom.
 I also had a small bit saved from the first racking off.

So to recap my thrilling tale. I now have 1 glass of wine from the end of the fermentation and before the racking off (transferring to another vessel and leaving behind sediment and yeast)  I also had 1 glass of newly aquired wine and 1 bottle of the stuff I put in the fridge.

The tasting beings!

Wow - Even though it is not clear and its a bit thick its nice! It smells good and tastes like a wine but with a nice sourness and plummy flavor at the end! HUZZUH!

But how did it compare to the glass I saved before the racking off? The wine before the racking off was very bitter and harsh. It had about the same constancy but it was words apart!

Stay tuned for the tasting of the plum wine from the bottle in a few weeks time