Of course, Ray, I've learned much over this year from YOU, so I am just
a reflection of my teacher. :*)

DAve


Ray Calvert wrote:
> 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
>>>
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