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Cardinal, my wife and I have made many different kinds of wine over the years, One year we decided to make a wine from table grapes and wine grapes (the mixture was heavy in table grapes). It turned out to be undrinkable as a table wine... way to sour and lacked any depth of fragrance... we distill...

I will try wild yeast on my upcoming all-grape wash then. (first wash ever BTW) I was going for fresh baker's yeast, but I'll try and see what nature brings.

OK, deep breath everybody, and count to ten.......... Cardinal, check this thread about search tools. Then use the 'HD Google search' link at the top of the page, refine your search terms to something like "fermenting grapes" or "grape wash" or "grape brandy", to get y...

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scotty is right but to add- some nutrients should be added like "fermade" you can add pectic enzyme to help extrack juice. fermenting on the skins will give more flavor but you will also have more fore shots/heads. some other fruit does not have much "sugar" and some will be nee...

Hey Cardinal, what kinda grapes are they? Table grapes, wine grapes, red. white?? Wine grapes are high enough in sugar so you don't need to make a wash. Just do as scotty and dnder said. If they're table grapes, then the sugar content will be less (usually) and you can add sugar if you want a hight...

To be honest, Cardinal, this section is here mainly for distillers who also dabble in wine making... Therefore, you may not get as rapid or as accurate of help here as you would in a true winemaking forum... Most of the "wine" we make gets run through a still... I don't get it. Mashes and...

Squeeze the juice and ferment it. I can only hope any other replies will be as helpful as yours has been. Thanks Your sarcasm is because you know nothing about fermenting grape juice wise guy. The answerwas spot on. Try reading a bit more No. My sarcasm was because your reply was useless, inasmuch ...

scotty wrote:Squeeze the juice and ferment it.

I can only hope any other replies will be as helpful as yours has been.
Thanks

Hi,
I want to do a grape wash. I have a lot of grapes. There are 359 threads with "grapes" in them. Can someone direct me please? I'm a noob BTW.
Thanks,
Cardinal

Ok, I never thought after all this time in the background just reading and watching that this would be my first post, but
please, TELL US SOMETHING. I´m dying to know how this is going.
By the way, I´m from Ontario too. Sarnia/ Grand Bend area. I live in Spain now though.
Great thread.