Juice

[Spider-man]

Has anyone made wine from cartons
Of red or white grape juice from the
Supermarket ?
After all grape juice is grape juice
Isn't it ? .

 

[calumscott]

It's the staple backbone in most of the juice wines that we do. I think I read somewhere that *just* grape juice isn't the best and the addition of other juices is required to get a really good palatable product.

Have a look in the Wine How To's for the Wurzel's Orange Wine one. A great place to start and really decent wine if you take care with it.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Have a read of the thread linked to in my signature below, there are lots of recipes and guides on how to make juice wines, there's also a link to the thread mentioned above.

 

[tonyhibbett]

A pet subject of mine. Yes, you can produce an alcoholic drink by fermenting supermarket grape juice. I have done this. The result is more alcopop than wine. Vineyards put their best grapes into their top wines. The substandard stuff goes into ordinary wines and the rest goes into industrial alcohol, grape juice, and grape concentrate. Wine kit producers use this stuff to bulk up the genuine article, mix it with a lot of sugar so you can produce an essentially fake wine and get away it.

 

[Crastney]

just like with apples and pears and other fruits, there are different varieties - not all grapes were made equal.
some are tasty to eat but make terrible wine, some are not very palatable but make fantastic wine... and everywhere inbetween.

supermarket grape juice will usually most likely be those grapes that can't be sold as eating fruit, and equally can't be sold as wine making fruit - so yes additional extras needed to make a 'good' wine.

 

[Spider-man]

ive been making wine by this process
for a few years now when i saw the prices
ove a tin in the homebrew shop £9 +
i looked at the label and thought i
can get all of that seperatly, gucosse
from b & h health shops for £1.30
and it makes 3 gallons, carton juice 85p.
etc ive hand no complants just hangovers.

 

[graysalchemy]

You will never be able to make a proper red wine from supermarket grape juice but you can make 'whites' and 'Roses'.

There are plenty of really good threads about WOWs especially moleys How to.

Depends what your tastes are, I have moved away from juice wines as I was never happy with them, they always ended up to sweet for me.

I now brew the Vintners reserve kits which are single grape variety kits which you don't add any sugar to. you get a bottle of wine equivalent to paying £5 in a supermarket but for less than £2, which i personally find acceptable. :thumb: :thumb:

If you are experiencing hangovers you may want to look at your brewing process, hangovers are usually caused by fusel alcohols which in turn are caused by high fermenting temps above 21c. :thumb:

 

[Spider-man]

i also make wine from grapes
growing in my garden
this is the first year there has been
anouth to make a gallon of
wine ...its still going , i:ll let you know
how its getting on.
the second batch of elderberry is
nearly finished that allways goes
down very well...

 

[tonyhibbett]

For white wines, sultanas seem a preferable ingredient for the grape element to white grape juice, but I recently discovered Flame raisins. These are derived from red (not black) seedless grapes and could be employed in making red wine.
As I currently understand it, a dessert grape is a deficient wine grape, low in acid but with enough sugar to make it palatable, preferably seedless, with a thin skin. They are harvested prematurely, so they are firm enough to survive packaging and transportation.
The wine grape is a badass character, full of pips, with a thick skin and left to hang on the vine until the last possible moment to get the highest level of sugar and then has to be processed as soon as possible before the rot sets in, and in some cases after the rot has set in.