And using the same sloes, topped up with red wine and half a litre of Madeira plus some sugar.

Just wait four months.

#SloePort

Sloes, Prunus spinosa, hang from the branches of a shrub in a hedge near home.

The #sloes in the hedges around the fields near our house are laden with fruit this year.

I will probably make #sloegin again, although I actually prefer #sloeport.

When you drain the gin from the sloes, keep them. Add red wine and brandy and wait for a while. The result is ‘sloe port’!

A busy morning, bottling sloe gin and recycling the sloes to make sloe port #sloes #sloegin #sloeport #Christmas