Sweet Rosé Wine

[johnnyk]

Hi,

I am making my first wine from a kit (CALIFORNIA CONNOISSEUR ZINFANDEL BLUSH ) and it seems to be going ok for now. I'm on to the last stage before bottling.

I was going to try making a rosé without the kits.

Is this too simple a recipe?

1L Red grape juice
1L White grape juice
Sugar
Yeast

To make it a bit sweeter I take it I just add youngs wine sweetner?
Also how long should you wait before you can start drinking this?

Any help would be great.

Cheers,
John

[xpers]

Hi,

I am making my first wine from a kit (CALIFORNIA CONNOISSEUR ZINFANDEL BLUSH ) and it seems to be going ok for now. I'm on to the last stage before bottling.

I was going to try making a rosé without the kits.

Is this too simple a recipe?

1L Red grape juice
1L White grape juice
Sugar
Yeast

To make it a bit sweeter I take it I just add youngs wine sweetner?
Also how long should you wait before you can start drinking this?

Any help would be great.

Cheers,
John

Well I am assuming you want to make up at least 5 litres?

If this is the case my thoughts would be to go with two cartons of red and three of white grape juice to get a rosé as a rosé is more white than red really. Not sure about how much sugar though. I make TC and if I don't put any sugar in it comes out at about 6%. Grapes apparently have a lot more fermentable sugar than apples so I wouldn't put too much sugar in to start with. I'd maybe go for 200G but that is pretty much a guess.

I think the general consensus on here is experiment and then let us know how you get on!

[Mitchamitri]

Make it sweeter by adding non fermentable sweetness - chuck a carton of five alive berry burst in

[johnnyk]

Hi,

I am making my first wine from a kit (CALIFORNIA CONNOISSEUR ZINFANDEL BLUSH ) and it seems to be going ok for now. I'm on to the last stage before bottling.

I was going to try making a rosé without the kits.

Is this too simple a recipe?

1L Red grape juice
1L White grape juice
Sugar
Yeast

To make it a bit sweeter I take it I just add youngs wine sweetner?
Also how long should you wait before you can start drinking this?

Any help would be great.

Cheers,
John

Well I am assuming you want to make up at least 5 litres?

If this is the case my thoughts would be to go with two cartons of red and three of white grape juice to get a rosé as a rosé is more white than red really. Not sure about how much sugar though. I make TC and if I don't put any sugar in it comes out at about 6%. Grapes apparently have a lot more fermentable sugar than apples so I wouldn't put too much sugar in to start with. I'd maybe go for 200G but that is pretty much a guess.

I think the general consensus on here is experiment and then let us know how you get on!

Thanks, yes i'll be making 5L.

I sort of know what I am doing just wanted a bit more info before I started experimenting. I'll give it a go and post the outcome, hopefully a good one.....

I've just agreed with a local bar to pick up some wine bottles so need to start making some wine

Cheers,

[johnnyk]

Make it sweeter by adding non fermentable sweetness - chuck a carton of five alive berry burst in

excellent i'll give this a try......

Cheers,

[johnnyk]

I've just bottle my first kit batch and now going to try experimenting a little with the above. What is the best yeast to use for rosé wines? Can I use youngs super yeast?

Cheers,
John

[johnnyk]

This turned out very good, a bit darker than what I expected but a nice Rosé. I added some sweetner which has helped also. It came out at about 12%.

3L White grape wine
1L red grape wine
500ml Berry blast
500ml water
400g sugar
wine sweetner
Lalvin yeast
Tannin

I am thinking on my next one!!