ASDA Red Grape Juice Wine

[shadow47]

Hi, I was browsing in ASDA the other day and seen Red Grape juice for £1 a litre, was thinking of buying 4 to see what they're like when fermented.

Has anyone tried this with grape juice? What sort of wine will I get out of it? Will it be comparable to one of the cheap kits you can buy?

Thanks :)

 

[Moley]

Firstly, grape juices are 3L for £2 in Morrison's and Sainsbury's (and possibly others too).

I haven't tried a wine from supermarket grape juice alone, I tend to use grape & apple or grape & orange. I would imagine grape juice alone would give a very thin wine because they are pressed from mostly dessert (eating) grapes and not from wine grapes.

 

[wurzel]

As above....you would be better off spending your money on 250ml of concentrated grape juice from a home brew shop (about £2.50) and making your wine from that

 

[shadow47]

Thanks, are you talking about something like this(link)?

Its says "Red Wine Enricher", would it be OK to just make a wine out of it without any extra fruit or anything? Maybe stick some raisins in to improve body?

 

[wurzel]

Yes that is the sort of thing but you would need 2 of them to make a half decent wine on it's own.

There are larger tins and bottles available which work out better value and 500 ml will make a wine on it's own Link

Or as you say, add tinned or fresh fruit, raisins, supermarket juice whatever.