Recipe Question

Sam's Choice White Grape juice is not the juice of Zinfandel grapes... You can't make Zinfandel Wine without Zinfandel Grapes. You may be able to make this wine from your juice:

Later, A.J.

The reason for that is that only grapes contain everything necessary to make table wine. All other fruits require addition of sugar, water and acid in some combination prior to fermentation. IOW, there isn't any "recipe" for making wine from grapes.

It is true that grape winemakers often "adjust" grape juice to achieve a better balance among those three elements, but it is usually relatively slight. Many wines are made with no adjustment at all because the fruit came in from the field with perfect numbers.

Tom S

One problem you might have is that you can't really make a red wine from white juice.

One problem you might have is that you can't really make a red wine from white juice.

Do a search for "jack kellar" he has hundreds of recipes on his website. I've used some and they are good.

You are asking in the off season. This is the season for most of us to make our country wines. Grapes come in in early fall and at that time you will see lots of us discussing grape wines. In the mean time, if you want to make some nice grape wines try some of the kit wines for Zin or Chardonnay or Gewürztraminer or just about anything you want. Many of them work very well and you can get them any time of the year and they are really easy. If you have questions about kit wines feel free to ask.

Ray

The springtime in the U.S. is also an opportunity for grape winemakers, with the availabilty of pretty high quality Chilean wine grapes. The Chilean harvest season should begin in earnest this month and next. I'm trying to develop a source for these grapes.

Also, wine kits (frozen pails of clarified juice (whites) and must (reds) go on sale in April out here in California !!!!!

Gene

Ray Calvert wrote: