1, first of all, to choose a good variety of prunes. Rui'an Gao Lou black charcoal plum and Chashan Yangmei is good, these two kinds of Yangmei high sugar, moderate acidity, darker color, aroma enough, soft taste. Please select fresh, ripe and unbroken prunes, and remove the leaves and fruit stalks (fruit stalks contain a lot of poor quality tannins that make the wine taste bitter).
2, choose a good white wine is also key. In order to make the prune wine in the prune unique fruity highlights, nutrients effectively retained, so the selected white wine should not be used curved incense, strong incense, bad burn type of white wine. This type of liquor is heavy odor, will dilute, suppress the fruity flavor of prunes. Rice burn, wine Khan and other rice-flavored white wine can also be, but the most ideal is the fragrance type barley wine, the wine negative pressure distillation, freezing, purification and deodorization treatment, so that the body mellow and clean with a special fruit flavor, and the fruity flavor of prunes can be most integrated.
3, with 45 degrees ~ 50 degrees of white wine, the proportion of white wine 55%, prunes 45%. According to personal preference, you can add rock sugar, honey, first dissolved in white wine, soaking prune wine containers should be filled to reduce contact with the air, protected from light preservation, soaking process do not contact with iron utensils, so as not to destroy its color.
4, soaking time can not be too long, generally within a month, soaking time is too long will make the bitter taste of prunes in the core leaching, affecting the taste, soaking a month later it is best to separate the prunes from the wine, prunes to eat first, the liquor can be saved for at least a year, slowly savored.
5, will not drink alcohol can use mineral water to dilute the wine, and then add honey and rice vinegar, you can get a good taste, health and beauty of the low degree of sweet wine.