Country red
Hedgerow fruit made into something with the shape of a red wine: blackberry, elderberry, damson. Grape concentrate and tannin are what give it structure.
The numbers
Each bar drawn against all 30 styles
Alcohol
11-13%
11% - 13%
Titratable acidity
5.5-7.5 g/L
5.5 - 7.5
pH
3.2-3.6
3.2 - 3.6
Residual sugar
0-15 g/L
0 - 15
Serve at
13-16 C
Worth opening after
6 months
and it keeps improving to roughly 4 years
Sulphite at pH 3.40
20 mg/L
free SO2, for 0.5 mg/L molecular
What goes wrong
Too much fruit. More is not better past about 1.5 kg per litre; the acid and the astringency rise faster than the flavour does.
No legal definition sets these figures. They are typical published analyses of commercial examples, compiled as a planning aid.
Make it
2 recipes on this site made to this style
Every figure below is computed from the ingredients and checked against the ranges above before the page is built.
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