Sulfiting agents in raisins

Sep 18, 2007 3 Replies

I was looking at doing a wine based on the Jalapeno recipe at Jack's site and it calls for golden raisins. All I've found so far are the Sunmade 15oz boxes of golden raisins, which the label says are sulfited. Will the "sulfited" preservative cause an issue with fermentation, or will it come out of solution along with the campden tabs? I'm guessing it's basically the same stuff - the raisins were probably exposed to burning sulfur smoke, I believe. Anyone know for sure? I'm also guessing that if I buy them in the box like this I'm going to be paying a premium price per pound, but I don't recall ever seeing the golden variety in bulk.



Thanks,



--Jeff



They are the same, Jack probably got them from a box too. I would guess they exposed them to sulfite gas; that is commonly available.

I have used this recipe using 16 jalapenos and a box of sunmaid white raisins, it fermented with no problem.

FWIW the regular Cali raisins list no chemicals on the boxes. I'm in the same quandry re: my peach wine : getting a second mortgage & buying clean golden raisins from Whole Fools Mkt, or the conventional brown ones @ Restauarnt Depot. I've used both sucessfully and definitely prefer the goldens. Hmmmm, maybe little Madison's braces can wait another year....

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