White Grape Juice wine with frozen Fruit FINISHED

White Grape Juice wine with frozen Raspberries for the Competition  -

Started 14th May 2010.

100% natural summer fruit 500 grams - Raspberries - 25 %, blackberries - 15%, cherries -15% strawberries - 15%, blackcurrants - 10% blueberries - 10%, redcurrants 10%.

100% Grape Juice ,  can mandarin segments, drained weight 175 grams.

Too much by 50%!!! Next time - less fruit or skip the mandarin segments.

1. Sterilize.

2. Put fruit and drained mandarins together.

Add 0.3 boiled hot water - pour it over the fruit with 500 grams sugar.  Add the juice from mandarins. 

1 teaspoon of pectic enzyme, 1 teaspoon of tannin. 1 teaspoon of citric acid.

Resulting Gravity -1080.

29May 2010. Added 224 grams of sugar and racked.

Mistake!!!

15.06.2010 - stopped fermentation - stopper and campden tablet. Mistake because I wanted to make it sparkling.


Very lovely wine!