Supermarket Juice Wine How To guide and Recipes.

[kelper]

I've transferred it once to a new demijohn. Was that daft? It seems to continue fermenting!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

You only need to rack this type of wine once as it doesn't throw up much sediment and clears quickly (with finings)

 

[DavieC]

Ive just bottled 5ltrs apple and rgj which has been clearing naturally for 5 or 6 weeks.All looking good and stuck a couple in the fridge for later.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

How did it taste?

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[DavieC]

Just having a glass ,chilled rose, very drinkable,and nice and clear.I didnt use any campden tab or finings with this.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I always used campden tablets but many in this thread said they don't bother as it wont be in the bottles long enough to spoil, they must have a partner like mine.

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[MmmBeer]

Bottled my first two fruit juice wines this afternoon, Cranberry & Apple and Mango & Passion Fruit. Had a sneaky taste of each, both were pretty good, very drinkable.

I have now tried a bottle of each of these. While both were good, the cranberry was a touch tarter than I would have ideally liked, maybe cut down on the citric acid, however the mango and passion fruit was excellent, with the mango flavour really coming through, dry but with the ghost of sweetness on the tongue.

I will defintely make the mango one again, but possibly reduce the mango and passion fruit juice to about 750ml substituting with apple or grape. I have a carton of the blueberry and blackberry juice by the same company in the fridge, looking forward to getting that one on now I have some free DJ's.

 

[kelper]

I've just bottled my first WOW as per the recipe in post #1. What didn't fit in five 75cl bottles went into two wine glasses in the fridge. Now I've tasted them I'm sad they taste of apple juice and are rather sweet. Will the bottles change much if I leave them for a few months? How long do you recommend? The FG was about 0.995.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

The red grape juice should have come through mine don't taste of apple juice its more a blend of the two, maybe next time use 1 litre of apple and 1.5 of red grape juice and see how it turns out.

This wine doesn't change much with ageing so i wouldn't bother leaving them for months.

 

[DavieC]

Hi all, last night I decided to bottle my apple and grapefruit wow, I'd degassed and added kwik clear finings last week and it cleared nicely over 5 days, however whilst trying to control both ends of the syphon/bottling wand I managed to stir up a load of sediment so stopped the operation after filling one cloudy bottle.This morning the wine is still very cloudy, will I need to add the finings again.Ideally I wanted a bottle for a Saturday bbq.? Edit..apple and pineapple not grapefruit

 

[Chippy_Tea]

No it'll clear eventually, a tip on syphoning that I found a godsend get a bucket clip (most home brew shops sell them) they fit on a FV or DJ and combined with a clothes peg guarantee to make syphoning trouble free.

 

[DavieC]

Cheers Chippy, I'd gotten complacent having done a couple over the last few weeks with no problems.I'm sure ive got a clip and definitely got a peg so its a lesson learned,just a bit annoying, do you think it will clear by Saturday?,it is quite hazy although the main half inch of sediment is still on bottom of dj.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

If you don't want to wait add more fining I have done this in the past with stubborn wines and it didn't effect the flavour.

 

[kelper]

I'm sat in glorious sunshine on the NC500 on Scotland's North coast. My wife brought out my first WOW with some ice cubes and it has completely changed my opinion! She says it as good as any Rose' d'Anjou. We both loved it. I think it was too warm when I first supped it.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Now you have got a favourite try a few different juices we liked cranberry juice with WGJ or RGJ but may have had to double up on the cranberry as i think the juice content was around 50%, we never made one we didn't drink (having said that the original orange one came close)

 

[kelper]

Wow. Will do. Daft question but does the WOW taste of cranberries? A friend made elderberry and banana wine one but, luckily, it tasted of neither.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

WOW is an abbreviations of wurzels orange wine unfortunately all juice wines got labeled as WOWs in the early days and it has stuck, the otiginal WOW sort of tastes like orange the cranberry one does taste of cranberry but the flavour is a lot less strong than when you drink it from the carton, that goes for all juices.

 

[DavieC]

If you don't want to wait add more fining I have done this in the past with stubborn wines and it didn't effect the flavour.

I decided to rack the hazy wine into another dj then added more kwik clear finings in order that it would be clear again for a bbq eyesterday(saturday) it cleared in 2 days and I bottled on Saturday morning and had a chilled bottle in the afternoon and it tasted great,I had been concerned that it tasted like cider after primary fermentation but that taste has now altered and its made a very refreshing clean tasting white wine with a good colour.Really pleased again.

 

[marshbrewer]

@DavieC does it taste of grapefruit at all? I only ask as I did a pineapple +apple WOW and it is fantastic; like a Chardonnay. Ok, perhaps a cheap supermarket Chardonnay, but my better half and Mother in law love it. I calculated it costs about 70p a bottle, so I love it too!

 

[DavieC]

@jjsh , No pineapple taste, as you say a very drinkable white wine, after racking after primary it tasted very appley but thats gone leaving a great tasting wine. The apple and rgj one I did tastes great as well.