Shippable Australian juice

[heatherd]

I pre-ordered three pails from Presque Isle Wine this year. I’m looking forward to making these in mid-summer. http://www.piwine.com/order-australian-juice-for-wine-making.html

 

[Johnd]

I pre-ordered three pails from Presque Isle Wine this year. I’m looking forward to making these in mid-summer. http://www.piwine.com/order-australian-juice-for-wine-making.html

I saw those in their email newsletter recently, have you tried these before? Planning to add any frozen grapes or skins to them? Interested to hear how they turn out.....

 

[heatherd]

I saw those in their email newsletter recently, have you tried these before? Planning to add any frozen grapes or skins to them? Interested to hear how they turn out.....

I got two chenin blanc and one Cabernet Sauvignon. I will add grapes to the latter. I have not made these before.

 

[Boatboy24]

You driving all the way up to PI to pick those up?

 

[pgentile]

3 buckets @75 each with shipping @21.95 each, total around $300+/-. 75 bottles finished wine, around $4 each. Still not a bad deal. Has anyone here obtained the Australian juice before? They state it's high quality juice.

 

[heatherd]

You driving all the way up to PI to pick those up?

@Boatboy24 They are shipping sterile juice this year, so I'm going to give it a go.

 

[heatherd]

3 buckets @75 each with shipping @21.95 each, total around $300+/-. 75 bottles finished wine, around $4 each. Still not a bad deal. Has anyone here obtained the Australian juice before? They state it's high quality juice.

I have not... this is pretty cool, though, as not all vendors have Australian juice to sell.... much less to ship.

 

[heatherd]

Yay, the three Australian juice buckets arrived yesterday in great condition, shipped via fedex and boxed individually. Haven’t opened the buckets yet but they are super clean on the outside. Very exciting!

There are two Chenin Blanc and one Cabernet Sauvignon.

I ordered a bucket of frozen Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon must from juicegrapedotcom and will split the juice and must into two batches. So that will be a single varietal from different continents. I’m thinking transcontinental cab for the name.

I will post more when I get them started....

 

[pgentile]

Now I'm kicking myself in the butt for not ordering Australian buckets. I need a midsummer ferment. I think I'll reach out tomorrow and see if they have any available.

Transcontinental cab, nice!!

Interesting........ square buckets. Harvested in March.

Will be interested how these turn out. Did they provide any numbers on the juice?

 

[BRD]

Now I'm kicking myself in the butt for not ordering Australian buckets. I need a midsummer ferment. I think I'll reach out tomorrow and see if they have any available.

Transcontinental cab, nice!!

Interesting........ square buckets. Harvested in March.

Will be interested how these turn out. Did they provide any numbers on the juice?

I’ve done 3 batches with great results. Have always fermented as is and blended at bottling. Shiraz and Cab Sauv 2:1.

 

[mainshipfred]

Neat name, would you consider doing 3 batches. 3 gallons straight Chilean, 3 straight Australian and 6 gallons of the mix. You could always blend the two 3's if blend turns out better.

 

[mainshipfred]

I need a midsummer ferment.

Not sure what your preferences are but peach season is coming up as well as other fruits.

 

[pgentile]

I need a midsummer ferment.

Not sure what your preferences are but peach season is coming up as well as other fruits.

Peach is on my radar. Also blackberry, blueberry, cherry blend. Which ever quality fruit I can get first will decide the batch.

 

[heatherd]

Now I'm kicking myself in the butt for not ordering Australian buckets. I need a midsummer ferment. I think I'll reach out tomorrow and see if they have any available.

Transcontinental cab, nice!!

Interesting........ square buckets. Harvested in March.

Will be interested how these turn out. Did they provide any numbers on the juice?

Hi Paul,
They didn't provide any numbers. They are still sealed while I wait for my cab sauv must. It's kind of cool to be able to start them at any time...
Heather

 

[heatherd]

Neat name, would you consider doing 3 batches. 3 gallons straight Chilean, 3 straight Australian and 6 gallons of the mix. You could always blend the two 3's if blend turns out better.

That's an interesting idea Fred - I usually split batches with different yeast, but that's a cool thought...

 

[heatherd]

Neat name, would you consider doing 3 batches. 3 gallons straight Chilean, 3 straight Australian and 6 gallons of the mix. You could always blend the two 3's if blend turns out better.

That's an interesting idea Fred - I usually split batches with different yeast, but that's a cool thought...

 

[mainshipfred]

Are you stuttering or did you forget you responded? It was 1:15 and I'm sure wine was involved.

 

[Boatboy24]

I need a midsummer ferment.

Not sure what your preferences are but peach season is coming up as well as other fruits.

I've done a few batches of Peach with fresh peaches we picked out at http://www.hollinfarms.com/

 

[mainshipfred]

I've done a few batches of Peach with fresh peaches we picked out at http://www.hollinfarms.com/

They have a large variety of peaches. Which variety did you use?

 

[pgentile]

I've done a few batches of Peach with fresh peaches we picked out at http://www.hollinfarms.com/

I'd be curious to hear those wines turned out. Also how many lbs of peaches per gallon?