Cranberry wine can be very good and is also a good mixer. Tomasello
winery http://www.tomasellowinery.com in NJ makes a dynamite Cranberry
wine that makes a terrific Cosmopolitan, but making your own is better.

I did 6 gallons using Jack Keller's recipe (from his website at least).
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/request.asp

Using Welch's white grape concentrate instead of raisins seemed to work
well for me. See his recipe.

In my humble opinion, if you do use a pinot G wine kit, you should put
the cranberries in the primary, not after the first racking. The yeast
needs to work on the berries. As far as how much berries - don't know.
But keeping the must to 1.099 will not stop the yeast. Going higher and
it could stall.

OK, this is only my 2 cents, I've only made 100 bottles of wines so far,
so i'm still kinda new.
DAve

wrote:
> I've been thinking about making a cranberry wine but I wasn't thinking
> about doing it straight from 100% cranberries and sugar. I was
> thinking about using a Pinot Grigio wine kit and racking it off to the
> secondary with some cranberries in it. I don't know if this is a good
> way to make cranberry wine and I also don't know how many pounds of
> cranberries to use. I am assuming that I relish the cranberries before
> racking off on to them. Any suggestions? Thanks
>