The invention relates to a method for preparing hawthorn dry red wine, comprising the following steps of taking hawthorn as raw materials, smashing the hawthorn, mixing sugar, mixing natural dry yeast and additives, loading the mixture in a container filled with hot water, fermenting for 5 to 50 days under the condition of 10 to 30 DEG C, carrying out aging fermentation for 30 to 90 days, then chilling for 5 to 30 days under the temperature of 5 DEG C below zero to 8 DEG C, clarifying, filtering, freezing and sterilizing , checking and filling to prepare the hawthorn dry red wine which has the sugar degree of less than 4 degrees, the alcoholic degree of 12 to 15 degrees and good taste, is acidulous, sweet (slightly sweet), bitter (slightly bitter), astringent and crystal clear and in the color of gem red. The brewing process of the hawthorn dry red wine is the fermentation process of transforming the sugar to the alcohol, the processes of leaching nutrients of amino acid, hawthorn acid, flavone, vitamin C, trace elements, and the like in the hawthorn are carried out at the same time, smashed red hawthorn is transformed to the hawthorn dry red wine, and organic acid, vitamins, flavonoids, the trace elements, lipolytic enzyme and the like in haw apples are transferred to the hawthorn dry red wine.