Grape juice
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Are you looking for white grape juice if you are you may be out of luck but you can substitute it for red grape juice which most supermarkets stock, have a look at this https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...ne-recipes-and-wurzels-orange-wine-wow.49462/
Waitrose still sell good white grape juice if there's one close enough. Some online vitamin places sell Stute grape juice, postage makes it pricy though. I've used sainsburys red grape and it was OK for rose recipes, especially liked it with pomegranate juice. I've also used this successfully in wine (to make my Trebbiano grapes from winegrapeclub up to a gallon) and it could work in the supermarket juice wine recipe:
https://groceries.asda.com/product/...-spanish-peach-grape-juice-drink/910003087325
It's very cloudy though so I used 1tsp clearzyme before fermentation.
https://groceries.asda.com/product/...-spanish-peach-grape-juice-drink/910003087325
It's very cloudy though so I used 1tsp clearzyme before fermentation.
Wilko sell white grape juice concentrate you use the full bottle in a DJ (think it's 220ml) but it's not cheap.
Red grape juice still showing on Asda website?
This is the stuff i use and its on rollback at the moment, send them an email asking why they don't stock it i did this when white grape juice became scarce and ADSA and Tesco both got back to me the next day.
It's an absolute disgrace that white grape juice has evaporated off supermarket shelves. I can understand a temporary cessation of supplies due to bad harvests etc but surely it's not an ongoing problem. I reckon they twigged that so many folk were making wine that it deprived them of more profitable wine sales! I'm gonna get on to ASDA's MD and give him what for, threaten never to use his stores again etc.
@Gunge I sent emails to Tesco and ASDA when they stopped selling WGJ and both replies were the same the demand was so low that trying to get hold of it when it became scarce was not worth the effort, i don't think we will be seeing it again, i wonder how much red grape juice people drink as there is always a good stock in all the big named supermarkets and Iceland in my area.
Here is a recipe for Rosé wine which we regularly make the method is here - https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/...ne-recipes-and-wurzels-orange-wine-wow.49462/
1 litre Red grape juice.
1.5 litre Apple Juice.
750g Sugar.
1 tsp Tannin or a mug of very strong black tea. (3 bags stirred every couple of minutes as you put the rest of the ingredients together)
1 tsp Yeast (i use youngs super wine yeast compound)
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient.
1 tsp Pectolase.
1 tsp Glycerine. (optional)
1 tsp citric acid or juice of one lemon. (optional)
1 litre Red grape juice.
1.5 litre Apple Juice.
750g Sugar.
1 tsp Tannin or a mug of very strong black tea. (3 bags stirred every couple of minutes as you put the rest of the ingredients together)
1 tsp Yeast (i use youngs super wine yeast compound)
1 tsp Yeast Nutrient.
1 tsp Pectolase.
1 tsp Glycerine. (optional)
1 tsp citric acid or juice of one lemon. (optional)
They're lying - I'm not buying that. They must be, cos I'm comfortably sure that WGJ sales easily outstripped those of stuff like bloody beetroot juice, of which they even have more than one brand of! I mean c'mon, they even sell toxic junk like pea and carrot juice. I don't think there's that many tofu-chomping, tree-hugging, sandal-wearing weird-beards around to justify that.
Not sure why they would lie and bear in mind this was when the original white grape crop failed I am sure they would stock it if they knew they would sell it.
Cos like I said, that many folk were using it to make wine, they were losing out on more profitable actual wine sales. Anyways Waitrose still do it apparently, but they know how to charge for it. Can't see why the others can't.
This could be the answer if its got to be white grape juice - https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/white-grape-juice-shortage.77044/
Very interesting. I didnt realise there was quite that much potential in sultanas.
I've skimmed a few of Tony's threads and think there is some useful info there.
Cheers for that.
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