how does anyone feel about making wine from store bought wine?like your
grape juice you can get at the supermarket.please let me no.

There are recipies out there. basically you take 2 cans of juice
concentrate, add sugar and water to a SG of 1.100. Ferment it dry, and
then sweeten it back up with sugar.

I am guessing you do not have much experience making wine. You should
get a book or read up on a webpage or three.

Here is a good place to start
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/


He has recipies in his "requested revipes" page for the wine you want
to make.

droopy thanx for the info,but what i meant was can you make it out of
the juice you can get of the shelf,not the concentrate,i got a kit and
took a shot at the concentrate,not all that great but i had worse.

hi.
I have experimented with frozen Welch's, if you like grape taste, it's
ok. Not exactly the original taste, but not a fine wine either. If you
get off the shelf, ensure it is not stablized with sorbate, as it won't
let the yeast do it's thing. I have found not all juices indicate they
added sorbate, unless it's organic and especially indicating it has
nothing added. I experimented with apple juice, and found some would not
"start" cause they must have had sorbate, not indicated on the label.
But the glass gallon jug was still useful. :*)

my 2 cents,
DAv

k-dawg wrote:
> droopy thanx for the info,but what i meant was can you make it out of
> the juice you can get of the shelf,not the concentrate,i got a kit and
> took a shot at the concentrate,not all that great but i had worse.
>

Hi

I regularly make wine from fruit juice bought from the supermarket,
it's easier than real fruit, and cheaper than kits. It's also more
satisfying that kits and a good way to get more experience with
winemaking before going on to use real fruit. If you can get pure juice
with nothing much added it's best, and definitely don't go for reduced
sugar because it will be full of sweetners. Avoid anything with the
word 'drink'. Apple Juice for example tends to be virtually pure Apple
Juice, but Apple Juice Drink is quite likely watered down. One of our
favourite receipes is 5 litres of pure Cranberry Juice, 5 litres of
pure Red Grape Juice, and a total of 5 kilos of sugar (add up and
deduct the sugar already in the juice). Add water to make the quantity
up to 5 gallons.

k-dawg wrote:
> how does anyone feel about making wine from store bought wine?like your
> grape juice you can get at the supermarket.please let me no.

k-dawg wrote:
> how does anyone feel about making wine from store bought wine?like your
> grape juice you can get at the supermarket.please let me no.

Pure liquid grape juice is about 20% more expensive here than juice
from wine kits, so I don't bother buying it. Frozen concentrate is
cheaper, but it doesn't make as good wine as the kits do.

In both cases you have to read the labels to make sure there's
absolutely no sorbate or sulfites in the juice. These chemicals are
added to the juice to stop it from fermenting in the can, but they'll
also stop your wine from fermenting.

wd41

Sulfites are usually not a problem, most wine juice is sulfited to 100
PPM free and it ferments well once it warms up. I agree on the sorbate
being an issue.

Joe