Bloody hell negodki, you're getting touchy.

Anyway Jack, the flavour of raspberry is so strong, that it is often
used to give other wines an extra flavour, or bouquet. A pure
raspberry wine imho is very nice when made of 1-1.5 kg per 4.5 l wine
at the most. It can be given more body with grape concentrate as the
total fruit content is quite low. Everybody decides for themselves.

Rene.

"Negodki" > wrote in message >...
> Jack Schmidling" > wrote:
> > I have not read all the articles in this thread but I am working on my
> first
> > raspberry wine. We usually make jam with them but still have some left
> from
> > last year so I thought I would give it a try.
> > I can not think of a single reason
> > for adding grape juice to this wine. The raspberry flavor is so intense
> and
> > wonderful that I would only think it a loss to dilute it.
> > This is truly a unique and lovely wine and needs nothing but water and
> sugar
> > to help it along.
>
> It's always advisable to read "all the articles" in a thread before
> commenting. Avoids foot-in-mouth disease. [If your newsgroup reader does not
> provide "back issues", they may be viewed at
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...s.winemaking.]
>
> 1) The original poster asked for a raspberry wine recipe. I gave them a
> successful blueberry wine recipe, and suggested that --- in my opinion ---
> one could substitute raspberries for blueberries, and use basically the same
> recipe. I did NOT suggest that this was the only possible recipe, or that it
> was superior to all others.
>
> 2) Vincent asked why I included grape juice in the recipe, and noted that he
> had won several gold medals without using grape juice.
>
> 3) I explained the function of the grape juice, noting that it is a common
> ingredient in "country" (i.e. non-grape) wines. I also noted that --- for
> me --- winning competitions is not the goal, but rather producing a wine
> that I and those with whom I share enjoy. And that's what I do.
>
> 4) Making jam is quite different from making wine, and the flavours and
> textures one expects in the two are quite dissimilar.
>
> 5) Since this is your "first raspberry wine", I don't think you are in a
> position to judge whether or not the addition of grape juice to the must
> would enhance or detract from the end result.
>
> 6) As I've stated 4 times in this thread, there are many ways to make
> excellent wines, and ALL of them are good.