making wine for christmas... Help?

[TrickyChick]

Hey guys,
So i want to make some wine for my friends and family this Christmas... ideally i don't want to use kits.
I would like to use fruit juices or something like that... but I'm not sure if it will be ready in time.... I'm going to make two wines (both 30 bottles worth..ish)
do any of you have recipes that would work?
I'd like one to be quite a christmasy wine and the other either a white/rose type :)

any help would be great :)

Nic xx

 

[shearclass]

You ideally need longer than the 45ish days you have between now and christmas. I have done one white wine from a kit and it was nice immediately after bottling, which was about a month after I started the kit. That was Beaverdale Sauvignon Blanc.

Alternatively, (and much cheaper) in the how to section there is a thread on making Wurzel's Orange wine (WOW).

Follow instructions for white, or replace the white grape juice and orange juice with red grape juice and cranberry juice for a rose.

I am very new to wine making, so i don't have any christmas wine recipes, though i assume you could make a red wine kit and boil up some cloves, cinamon, ginger etc and add to the jucie concentrate, but that is 100% guess!

 

[Moley]

The WOW guide is here, that's about your only option (other than some of the ‘7-day’ kits) if you want anything approaching drinkable within 6 weeks.

As shearclass says, red grape + cranberry to the same method produces a pleasant rosé.

 

[shearclass]

beaverdale kits are advertised as 28 day kits, and the one i used was really quite nice after 1 month.

Never used, and really don't want to use, one of the 7 day kits. :sick:

 

[Moley]

Beaverdale kits are advertised as 28 day kits, and the one i used was really quite nice after 1 month.

I've done a couple, they were ok at one month but much nicer at six.

Never used, and really don't want to use, one of the 7 day kits. :sick:

Ditto.

 

[Wraeccan]

I did do a juice wine with Polish sour cherry and black grape juices. It was very red and just about drinkable after 4 weeks.
It's certainly the quickest 'red' I've managed...

 

[Bjorn Toulouse]

It would have to be a kit, fruit wines take months and months to be drinkable, last years bramble is now realy quite good.
have a peek at the 7 day (so they say) Australian Blend. I have done a pinot G for the mrs, she prefered it over the beaverdale kits, but "its not as good as the vintners reserve".
You might try the cab sauv as a base. add some cinamin star, annise mabee vanilla (at a push)

 

[disco_monkey79]

The easy white #1 is very nice (just like WOW, but with apple juice instead of orange).

 

[TrickyChick]

thanks guys :) i've made the wow before and it came out really nice.
i'll definitely try the rose version though that sounds amazing :)