Rinsing frozen red currants

I picked some garden grown red currants a good while ago and threw them straight in the freezer without washing them. I'm planning on making wine with them soon. Most recipes I've read recommend rinsing them before crushing, but how should I go about doing this?

Should I let the berries thaw first or just rinse them while frozen? Is rinsing even necessary if I'm scalding them with hot water?

Topic first-time-brewer ingredients wine fruit techniques homebrew

Category Mac

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Too late to rinse them now. When ready to use, after thawing them out, I would suggest adding K-meta or one crushed Campden tablet to them per pound, let that sit for a day or two. This will kill any bad yeast and bacteria that might be on the fruit. Then make your wine and pitch plenty of good wine yeast. The good yeast will overcome both the K-meta/Campden and whatever wild contaminants might have been in the fruit.

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