Sloe Port

Sloe Port Recipe

Makes 1 litre

Ingredients

About 500g of the sloes left over once you've drained your sloe gin/brandy/whisky

1x 750ml bottle of red wine - any cheap red wine will do

100g sugar

200ml brandy

A large, clean preserving jar with flip top lid such as the 2L Kilner ones.

Method

Add the gin-soaked sloes, sugar and the bottle of wine to the jar. Seal the top and shake every day for 3 weeks to ensure the sugar is fully dissolved and gin gets distributed.

Then add the brandy to the jar and shake well. Stick in a corner somewhere dark and forget about it for at least 3 months, the longer you keep it the better it matures!

When you're ready to drink your port, strain off the berries off through muslin once again. Dispose of the sloes, they have done you a good service and probably not of any further use!

Decant your Sloe Port into bottles. If you're feeling really nice, you can give them away to friends and family as gifts. However once you taste it, you may decide to give them something else instead.

Variations

Instead of using Sloes soaked in alcohol, you can use blueberries, blackberries, cherries or anything else that you've soaked in alcohol following the same method as above.