ColinF
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Ok so I guess it's feedback time 
We had a wee party the other week and there was a lot of 'tasting' going on 
So I had 6 Supermarket Juice Wines and 2 Meads. All the juice wines had a base of Red Grape and Apple Juice with a litre of something else. They all ended up between 990 & 994. So listed by the 'something else' here we go:
Pineapple - Quite tart, but very pleasant. Easier after the first glass
Pear - Smooth and refreshing, by far the favourite of my guests.
Prune - Ok this was more an experiment. It wasn't nasty but definitely different. Quite a deep flavour and nearly brown in colour. Had a glass of pineapple afterwards and you really could taste the pineapple, whereas to start with you couldn't obviously needed the contrast !
Tropical - Mix of orange & mango. Very nice, certainly make again.
Cranberry - By far my favourite. A crispness from the cranberry on top of the base rose, really nice.
Apple - The base supermarket juice but with 2l of Apple Juice. Nice wine.
Original Mead - wasn't sure what to expect, nice dry white wine basically.
Mead flavoured with Ginger, all spice and Muscovado sugar - This didn't take on the flavour we hoped, more just a hint, but then we only left the spices in for 2 weeks after the fermentation ceased. Nice though.
So all in all a successful venture. Definitely got me hooked. 3 more gallons of basic Rose clearing and 5 gallons of Elderberry nearly finished 2nd fermentation.
Getting the rosehips out of the freezer next
We had a wee party the other week and there was a lot of 'tasting' going on So I had 6 Supermarket Juice Wines and 2 Meads. All the juice wines had a base of Red Grape and Apple Juice with a litre of something else. They all ended up between 990 & 994. So listed by the 'something else' here we go:
Pineapple - Quite tart, but very pleasant. Easier after the first glass
Pear - Smooth and refreshing, by far the favourite of my guests.
Prune - Ok this was more an experiment. It wasn't nasty but definitely different. Quite a deep flavour and nearly brown in colour. Had a glass of pineapple afterwards and you really could taste the pineapple, whereas to start with you couldn't
obviously needed the contrast !Tropical - Mix of orange & mango. Very nice, certainly make again.
Cranberry - By far my favourite. A crispness from the cranberry on top of the base rose, really nice.
Apple - The base supermarket juice but with 2l of Apple Juice. Nice wine.
Original Mead - wasn't sure what to expect, nice dry white wine basically.
Mead flavoured with Ginger, all spice and Muscovado sugar - This didn't take on the flavour we hoped, more just a hint, but then we only left the spices in for 2 weeks after the fermentation ceased. Nice though.
So all in all a successful venture. Definitely got me hooked. 3 more gallons of basic Rose clearing and 5 gallons of Elderberry nearly finished 2nd fermentation.
Getting the rosehips out of the freezer next
