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Wild Blueberry Wine

Hi everybody, Always thought about making blueberry wine, tried a few..like one if not too sweet. I am a grape man! But, yesterday I found wild blueberry juice in a store, BJ's. It is fromWymans and contains no preservatives!! But it is sweetened with apple and grape concentrates. I am going to take the plunge! Starting small, 1 gallon batch. Does anyone know if I should be adding any ingredients to the must, obviously Kmet/yeast nutrient/yeast/Acid..tartaric or blend? How much? Anybody do this before? If I ferement totally dry will it taste weird? Do I have to leave some residual sugar in it and use potassium sorbate? I hate the taste of that Ksorbate stuff, I can pick it out in commercial wines.

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Lou
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Blueberries actaully make a wine taht tastes a lot like grape wine. i do not think you need to make it sweet.

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Droopy

Sounds great. I have never seen it but would try it if I did. You did not list adding sugar to get the SG up. You might check your acidity to see if it is too high. You might need to water it down a bit. I would make it dry and then sweeten it to taste if my taste said any was needed. If you do not like sorbate then you can try some other method of preventing refermentation but only if you sweeten it back up. Or you can bottle dry and sweeten at the table.

Ray

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Ray Calvert

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