Add Grapes to Wine Juice

[DHall]

Hi Everyone. I'm picking up my first couple batches of Wine Juice in a few weeks and have a few questions. I've read that Red wine juices may be light in color and light in body, because the juice did not sit on the skins. I've also read on this forum to add grapes to the juice to give body and color.

I have two questions,

1. If I add Grapes to my Must, should they be crushed or just thrown in whole?

2. How long, so i don't over do it on the tannins?

 

[Scooter68]

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[Boatboy24]

Just need the skins broken, no need to pulverize them. Leave them in until your first racking. I recommend using a paint strainer bag for the grapes. That way, you can just remove the bag, and squeeze the juice from the grapes.

 

[DHall]

Thank you for the advice!

 

[FTC Wines]

Dhall, go to the thread below, titled "juice bucket Chianti style" and you will get a lot of info on juice buckets & adding fresh grapes to them. A lot of us do that. Roy