Elderberry Wine

From Emmanuelle Mercier's Cookbook (Strasbourg, France)

• Ready In: 840 hrs 15 mins
• Serves: 48
• Yields: 12 bottles

Ingredients

• 10  liters rose wine
• 300  g elderberry flowers (local forest)
• 2  kg sugar
• 3  cups  Everclear alcohol

Directions

1. Make a maceration of the flowers into 10 liters of the wine for 30 days - stirring once every 7 days.
2. Filter out the flowers.
3. Add the sugar and the alcohol that has been heated to 90 degrees Celsius and stir.
4. Allow the sediment to settle over the next 3 days.
5. Place in wine bottles and cork.