red wine recipe please

[babe10]

hiya all, I had a lovely bottle of red wine (merlot) at my friends house last night (shared not the whole bottle) and wondered if anyone had a red wine recipe they could share with me. I have been looking around the forum and the advice seems to be that you need tannin and concentrate or raisins to add to grape juice to get the full body and thickness. thanks

 

[Moley]

I'm sorry to say that if you want anything similar to a Merlot, your best bet is probably a Beaverdale (or one of the other mid-priced) Merlot kit wine.

If you want to base on supermarket grape juice you're quite right about needing raisins or red Grape Juice Concentrate.

There are plenty of other fruits which will give a decent red wine, but you're probably looking at 9-12 months and you might still need the GJC.

 

[babe10]

Thanks for reply just got into this great hobby so will just go with the wurzels for the mo. Trawling through the wurzels thread at the mo can anyone find me the rose wurzels recipe? I want to make a nice pinky girly one to have at our pink ribbon campaign night thanks

 

[Moley]

To make 2 gallons (or 10 litres):

1 litre White Grape Juice
1 litre Red Grape Juice
1 litre Orange Juice
1 litre Cranberry Juice Drink
1.5kg sugar
Half a box Twining's Raspberry, Strawberry & Loganberry ‘tea bags’, infused in boiling water for 10 mins, squeezed out and infused again.

Pectolase, yeast, nutrient, glycerine etc. as standard Wurzel's.

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

I read somewhere i could add raisens at beggining of recipe instead of glycerine at the end of the recipe. Anyone know if this is tue or if it would effect final product
thanks in advance....

 

[Moley]

Sounds good to me, although I've never tried it.

Rinse the raisins first because they are probably lightly coated with vegetable oil to give them that attractive shine.

I can't see any reason why you shouldn't just chop them, drop them in the DJ and leave them there for the duration, or certainly for a couple of weeks.

What weight were you thinking of using? Remember that they are two-thirds sugar, so if you add 75g of raisins use 50g less of sugar.

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

not sure i made a quince wine few monthys ago and the recipe said 250gramms and it apparently adds more body and something to do with the feel in your mouth but leaves no taste really...

 

[Moley]

Depends what else went in with your quince, this recipe already has reasonable body from the fruit juices so I don't think I would add more than 150g of raisins (and reduce sugar by 100g).

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

whats the purpose of the glycerine?? i thought that was same as raisens?? :shock:

 

[Moley]

Glycerine improves the ‘mouth feel’ of the wine, like you said above, but won't add anything to the body. After all, we're only talking about one teaspoonful to the gallon, 5ml to 5 litres, 1 part per thousand. It's entirely optional anyway, I've made it with, I've forgotten to add it or run out and made it without. There is a slight difference, I prefer it with.

 

[jonboymentalhealth]

I'll get some in and give it a try do you add it to every wine??