Wine made simple

[Fentos1303]

Hi I'm just starting out and I'm keen to try a 5 litre rose wine using just fruit juices and grape juice, could someone please point me in the direction of how much of each ingredient I would need and how much water and sugar (roughly to add)?? I'm just starting off low profile as you can see

 

[wineforfun]

http://www.winemakingtalk.com/forum/f6/wine-made-easy-36430/index2.html#post440622

Go to page 2 toward the bottom and you will see a .pdf with a bunch of recipes that will get you going.

 

[Fentos1303]

I'm using iPhone here don't seem to be able to do what u said! All I'm
After is like an example of how many litres of juices ( grape/fruit) that I would need and how much water to make up to 5 litres! Cheers

 

[wineforfun]

Here are a couple recipes that may or may not help. These came from the recipe section on this site.

Blueberry Wine - 5 gallon recipie

2- 5 or 6 gallon primary buckets
30 lbs Blueberries frozen
10 lbs Sugar
2 Fruit Bags


2.5 tsp. Acid Blend
2.5 tsp. Pectic Enzyme
3 tsp. Yeast Nutrient
1 tsp. Grape Tannin

Lalvin EC-1118 Yeast


Just times this by 5 or 6, depending on how much you are making.

1 Gallon recipe

raspberries ripe.. 2lb / 1. kg

sugar 12oz / 330 gm

1 can of rose, white or red grape juice ( note; the can measurement refers to enough concentrate required to make one gallon of wine, this will will vary from brand to brand of concentrate , check the details on the can)

yeast and nutrient allpurpose

campden tablets

pectic enzyme

wash raspberries gently and drain them. put fruit in a pail ( in strainer bag if you use one),pour over a litre of boiling water, add concentrate and crush fruit completely. Add sugar as a syrup and make up volume to 1 gallon with water .. add pectic enzyme and leave overnight. Add yeast and nutrient..Cover pail and leave for 3 days stirring daily. Strain must as leaving the seeds in too long will impart a woody flavour to the wine. transfer to secondary and ferment to dryness.

do not attempt to feed this wine up to a higher alc content as it has insufficient body to carry the extra ingredients to carry sugar as alcohol..

I have made this and added a couple of ripe bananas to the mix for body..

it's currently cellared .. tasted ok when intitially bottled.

recipe courtesy of brian leveretts 'winemaking from kits' book.

 

[Fentos1303]

Thanks very much for that i will probably give that a go, much appreciated!