I'm interested in making a "port" style wine from a red wine kit that is, starting, for example, with a Temprillo kit and then stopping fermentation with alcol\brandy. I thought I'd seen something like that on this forum but can't find it now. Does anyone have a recipe\instructions?
Try GrapestoGlass.com They have an in-house recipe. (I'm assuming from your email address that you're Alberta)
Les
When using grapes, making port-style is essentially letting about half of the sugar ferment, then topping up with spirit (for example Taylor's uses a 77 or 78% grape spirit, but many home-winemakers use neutral grain spirits) to bring the alcohol up to 20%.
I have no idea if it would work well using a kit, as they are generally adjusted to be finished dry, but I imagine that if nothing else it would be delicious and interesting ! What more can you ask for !
Do you have to stabalize or will the increased alcohol content stop the fermentation?
The traditional Portuguese method is to stop the fermentation by adding alcohol (Brandy) and that's the method I want to try.
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