I too have made Jack's recipe. It is not my favorite but women seem to love
it. It is a bit strongly cranberry flavored for me. I will make it again
but will use more grape juice and less cranberries next time. Not saying
anything negative about Jack's recipe, just crafting to my own taste.

As stated Cranberries are very strong and will overpower most anything used
with them. I would not use an expensive kit for this. Kind of over kill.
In fact I would suggest using Welch's frozen Niagara concentrate. It makes
a good wine on it's own and Jack recommends it to add vinuosity to fruit
wines. This agrees with Dave's comments.

Ray

"DAve Allison" > wrote in message
...
> 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
>>