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Turbo Yeast? Isn't that for liquor? Why is that considered wine if no real juice is fermented or added?

Technically nothing made from anything other than grapes is wine but tell that to someone who makes country wines and see what they think of that distinction...

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Turbo yeast is just very alcohol tolerant yeast as I understand it. I don't think you can make liquor without distilling of some sort but could be wrong there.

Joe

I meant that it is probably the type of yeast that they would use to ferment something before distillation.

That is the only place I ever read about it too; a website that described distilling at home in New Zealand. I wonder what it really is.

Joe

Even my Oxford dictionary disagrees with that, going so far as to specify Elderberry and Ginger as just two examples of "wines"......... ;o)

Frederick

I think that was Joe's point or in my words "Wine is made from grapes while wine with an adjective in front of it, e.g., Elderberry Wine, is made from whatever you like."

Dick

It's not truein the UK, maybe in Grape growing regions *tilts nose away from reader*

Jim

; a website that

It's a very fast fermenting yeast that is being used in all sorts of things alcoholic. Some people have also been useing it for normal country wines. Some of the high alcohol ones give an off flavour and are really best used for distilling.(as if we would!) but the ones that take a bit longer produce some excellent fast table wines. There's more about it all here