Cherry/Pomegranate

[rgecaprock]

I just mixed up a batch of cherry/pom from Knudsen all natural juices.


I added sugar to 1.100 but surprized at how tart the must is as was the taste of both juices. I have a starter going of 71b-1122 to add tomorrow.


Just wondering how the natural tartness of the juice effects the finished wine. Similar to cranberry juice in flavor.


Ramona It is a beautiful garnet color and juice ratio is 3:2

 

[Curt]

Ramona,


This is a 5 gallon batch? If after fermenting it out you want to reduce the acidic taste you can either cold stabilize or do a MLF or both.

 

[rgecaprock]

Curt,


It is only a one gallon batch (the pomegranate is very expensive).


I'll get back as it goes along.


Ramona

 

[pkcook]

Ramona,


Was this gallon from fresh cherries and pomegranate?


Pat

 

[jojo]

sounds excellent


tell us more!

 

[rgecaprock]

No, I used the Knudsen pure juices from the healthfood section of Kroger. It's pretty expensive though, about 7.00$ per quart. It started fermenting about 4 hours after I added the starter. I'm anxious myself to try that one. I think it may need to be sweetened up more than the others due to the tartness.





Ramona

 

[pkcook]

Romona,


Here is a link to a concentrate site that I use. They have both cherry and pom as well as some others.The reconstitute ratio is1 pint per gallon. Price per pintfor the cherry is $7.95 and $11.95 for the pom. They do have larger quantities available. I've tried the cherry and raspberry and both are very good.I'm currently making 6 gallons of the concord concentrate.


http://www.brownwoodacres.com/


Pat

 

[pkcook]

Forgot to mention that the concentratescontain no sulfites orpreservatives,and are all natural.

 

[txclifton]

Thanks for the link...I've been looking for something like this for some time. My brother and I suffer from Gout. The tart cherry concentrate is something I wanted to try. This is packaged very well. I may just have to make some wine out of it too!

Cheers,

-Doug

 

[rgecaprock]

Thank you, Pat


I'm still learning so I've been keeping my experiments to 1 gallon batches so far. I appreciate the link and I'll check it out. I find that the wines from scratch are exciting because you never know how they will come out!!!


So far mine have been really pretty good!!


Ramona

 

[pkcook]

Doug/Ramona,


If you try any wine with these, let us know how they come out. I used the raspberry and cherry as sweetners for wines I made from Oregon canned fruit. The flavor is intense, but it clouds the wine. I've got 3 gallon of cherry wine almost finished. I'll sweeten with the concentrate and use the KC finings Masta recommended and see how that works out. The concentrate turned a mediocre wine into a very nice wine.


Pat