Green wine

I have heard of a lot of wines that are made form green fruit and vegetables of various types, but none I know of actually come out green. After all white wines are not really made from white grapes. They are red or green. I have even seen wine made form green peas but it was not green. I think you had better conceder using food color. And I am not sure that it will work to put it in and try to age it for a year in the wine, you may need to add it on the day you serve it for best results but I am not sure of that. In low concentrations, food colors tend to break down over time. You could open the bottles on the day they are to be used, add the food color, then put T-corks or tasting corks in them. Just a suggestion.

Ray

I think most of the green pigment in plants is chlorophyll, which probably won't last through fermentation. If you insist on natural colouring, you could try making spinach wine (spinach is very high in chlorophyll- we use it the organic chemistry lab to isolate the green stuff). Just don't offer me any.

If you actually want a green wine, your best best would probably be to add a few packages of green Kool-Aid to a wine, probably after fermentaion.

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Make a white wine, like a Niagara and add one drop of blue coloring.

Hi, Ray's right. I've made pepper wine, it does not come out green, just as watermelon wine doesn't come out red. You'd think it would, but it doesn't. Anyway, a little food coloring won't hurt anything. Don't they add food coloring to beer on St. Patrick's Day. Darlene Wisconsin

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I was thinking about this in re: to beer, and i had the bright idea that green tea would work, you would probably want to put the tea bags or loose tea in the secondary. I have used other teas in beer and it would turn out the colour of the respective tea, such as roisboi makes a wonderful red beer.