Please help my dad!

[mumcat2]

Please excuse the apparently rock-bottom basic question but...
this is a plea for help for an aging brewer - my dad. He's aging particularly well (83 this year and still towing a caravan to the south of France twice a year), and was a brewer of very fine blackberry wine for many years until he retired. He's recently decided to make some of the old starter's favourite of wine from concentrate and is having great difficulty in getting the right stuff. We seem to be able to find loads of concentrate to add to fruit wines, but nothing that's brewable in its own right (with sugar etc of course)
What has happened to the old fashioned stuff in the intervening 20+years, and what do folks such as your well-skilled selves use to produce a vaguely potable white?
Any reasonably polite replies will be gratefully received and passed on (we're still trying to have him converted to a PC, and as two 50+ ourselves, we're hardly spring chickens in computer circles!)
Regards from currently dark but always lovely Nottinghamshire
Denise

 

[shearclass]

Hi

there are a range of wine kits for making wine at home. There are some cheap ones which contain apple concentrate as well as grape juice concentrate, and which you need to add sugar to. However, there are also some very expensive kits.

You can get a decent kit that requires no extra sugar to be added for about 12 quid, which make 5.5 bottles of wine of a decent standard. Alternatively, the same kit scaled upwards cost abotu £42 quid to make 30 bottles.

Where are you looking for the kits?

 

[Mark1964]

Or you could look at the wow recipes and try adding or using different juices etc
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[bobsbeer]

Depends on what he drinks. Red or white. There are some good kits, such as Beverdale, Selection. Expect to pay £30 plus to get a good kit to make 30 bottles. Maybe a daft question, why doesn't he just load up with wine while in France?