“Fine” Wine from Juice

Can you make a Fine Wine From Store Bought Grape Juice? Well, we know you can make wine from any juice really, but how “fine” can it be? Commercially made wine uses varietals of grapes to achieve specific types of wine. Most grape juice is concord grapes, which… while tasty are not the most highly sought after type of grape for wine. Let’s see if we can change that!

Ingredients:

1 Gallon Grape Juice

.87 lbs Sugar

2.5 grams Fermaid O: https://amzn.to/3zZGpr8

1/2 teaspoon Pectic Enzyme: https://amzn.to/3GNshVA

1/2 teaspoon Wine Tannin: https://amzn.to/41dcLuA

1/2 teaspoon Acid Blend: https://amzn.to/3UHszU3

Lalvin 71B Yeast: https://amzn.to/3MGYdiq

Optional Additions:

Back Sweeten with Sugar to Taste (we went to a gravity reading of 1.002)

1 Stave French Oak Sherry Infused: https://barrelcharwood.com/

Tools We Use:

Little Big Mouth Bubbler: https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/little-big-mouth-bubbler

Scale: https://amzn.to/3mKxuqt

Hydrometer Kit: https://amzn.to/3oiLCI9

Baster: https://amzn.to/3MGZeqK

Star San: https://amzn.to/3UGE7Xl

Stirring Paddle: https://amzn.to/3UHtLqv

Auto Siphon: https://amzn.to/3mFqVW8

1 Gallon Wide Mouth Fermenter: https://amzn.to/3mD7DRs

Our Favorite Pitcher: https://amzn.to/3UJ8oov

Glass Mug with Handle: https://amzn.to/407MEnj

Belgian Tasting Glasses: https://amzn.to/3mCYs3n

Glencairn Glasses: https://amzn.to/3GJwn16

Oaking our Fine Wine

We Oaked Our “Fine” Homemade Grape Wine. We made a Wine from concord grape juice from the grocery store. Seriously. Then we put it on some oak. Well? How is it?

How FINE is our Juice WINE? One Year Taste

Can you really make a FINE WINE from Grape juice from the grocery store? Well… we tried. We used every technique we knew of to refine this concord grape wine. Then we aged it for a year, so… how did we do?

5 ounce Tasting Glasses: https://amzn.to/3UHyycM

Fun T-shirts: https://city-steading.com/product-category/t-shirts/