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Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines

From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:12:06 -0600

I beleive a little sulfite helped.

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From: "Gordon Nofs" <gc_nofs@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 14:22:31 -0400
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines

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Phil
In adding sugar to a wine that is finished before it gets to 11% you take
the chance of either just a little will make bubbly, and more will blow the
bottles, corks hopefully. If it has not reached 11% which is the point at
which the yeast dies. It will start to work. If you do not have a vinometer
to check for alcohol, that is the problem. 
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From: "philip sauber" <mrtejas@lycos.com> Reply-To: North American
Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> To: "North American Fruit
Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines
 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 11:40:31 -0600 My dad used to make
excellent blackberry wine with the rampantly wild domestic himalayan vines of
the Seattle area that cover ever spot of untilled ground. His recipe called
for water. What you get with water is a style of wine closer to the
lighter bodied grape fine wines. Before bottling, we would taste the wine
and add sugar to taste. It amazed me that too dry of a blackberry wine
didn't even taste like blackberries until sugar was added to taste. To
taste with the sugar really wasn't a very sweet wine either. Home winemakers
have the advantage in adding sugar. Commercial winemakers can't by law.
 I have tasted the undiluted homemade grape wine in Bosnia/H
erzegovina. I noticed the farmer adding water to his finished wine and
sure enough it tasted better to me also after adding water. phil
 ----- Original Message ----- From: mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>
 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:32:44 -0500 To: North American Fruit
Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines
 > Rob: > > Have you made fruit wines? My real question is
about using pure juice > to make the wine or adding water to it. The
majority of recipes that > I'm finding online call for equal amounts of
juice to water. I'm > assuming adding water will increase the amount of
sugar needed to be > added to get to a specific gravity of 1.090. (I
usually am happy with > 1.085...) Adding water also seems to me that
it'll create a lighter > body wine. > > > On Thursday, July
15, 2004, at 10:01 AM, Rob Halgren wrote: > > > > > > > > I would, however, go out of my way to get a
good quality wine yeast. > > Any homebrew store and a number of internet
vendors would carry > > several different varieties. Yeast strains are
quite different. > > Using bread or beer yeast is a good way to get a
product that tastes > > 'bready' or 'beery'. In addition to producing
wine that tastes more > > like wine, wine yeasts also usually ferment to
a higher alcohol > > content, which is what you want. A couple bucks
extra for good yeast > > is well worth it. > > > > > I've
read in numerous places that yeast is the single most important > factor
in the kind of wine that is created. I've been using Wyeast > liquid
yeasts & found that they give outstanding characteristic to the > wine
made. http://www.wyeastlab.com/ Since Im not a big fan of > count
ry wines & sweet wines, Im looking for something that is on the > dry
side. Last years elderberry that I made was remarkably similar to > a
merlot. > > mIEKAL > >
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[NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Rob Halgren, 07/15/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, mIEKAL aND, 07/15/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Naomi, 07/15/2004
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- RE: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Gordon Nofs, 07/15/2004
 - [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Mark Lee, 07/15/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, philip sauber, 07/15/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Gordon Nofs, 07/15/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, philip sauber, 07/15/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Re: Fruit Wines, Gordon Nofs, 07/16/2004