Dry white wine kit

[Newbiewineman]

After the success of the youngs 7 day kit ( thank you for all that helped) The wife would like to know if theres any specfic dry white wine kits. All i seem to keep turning up is etheir medium or medium dry. she wants the hardcore make your jaws lock sucking a lemon dry. Some kits dont even specify what dryness they are just give you the grape type i asked the wife if you could tell just by this but it really cant cause ot all down to what the winery does to it etc. Or if there isnt an out the box kit maybe somebody could point me in the right direction for a diy concntrate and all the ingrediant etc

thanks in advance a sober sean and a merry wife

[Geezah]

Try the wurzel recipe and use a champagne yeast to get it down to 996 before bottling and it should be like a nuns crutch!

1 litre orange juice.
1 litre white grape juice.
1½ lb sugar.
1 tsp nutrient
½ tsp tannin
1 tsp Pectic Enzyme
1 tsp glycerine
Water to 1 gallon

Rack it off in to a plastic demijohn and de-gass it by shaking hell out of it (with a sealed lid) and letting the gas out several times over a 2 hr period.

This is a regular in our house and always goes down well.

[Newbiewineman]

Whats a plastic demejohn ? and wheres the best place to buy the above ingrediants. and finally do you think you could write a step by step recipe thank you in advance

[Geezah]

The original post is here... http://www.homewinemaking.co.uk/forum/Y ... 18971587/0
that should guide you along.
Plastic demijohn .... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/5-Litre-Plastic-D ... 93ff93d119

But if you go in to morrisons or asda, they sell the same container full of water for about 92p
Using plastic just makes the de-gassing process easier as it will allow the co2 to expand the vessel and you release it manually. (de-gassing is not necessarry, but it reduces the 'eggy' smell when you open a bottle)

All the ingredients listed above....
White grape juice - Lidl ~ bouts 90p a litre
Orange juice Same as above
All other stuff I bought from http://www.thethriftyshopper.co.uk/

[Newbiewineman]

right 2 questions
whats a sg and what happens if it isnt at the right how do i correct it

and to get it to 996 do i just leave it cooking away in its bottle for how long aprox

thanks for your help deffo gonna give it ago

[thedeckking]

All the beaverdale kits are really good. My favorites the Pinot Grigio but the Chardonnay is dryer.

[Geezah]

right 2 questions
whats a sg and what happens if it isnt at the right how do i correct it

and to get it to 996 do i just leave it cooking away in its bottle for how long aprox

thanks for your help deffo gonna give it ago

SG or OG = Starting Gravity or Original Gravity, this is measured with a hydrometer.
Water has an SG of 1.000, when you add fermentables the number rises, the higher the number the more potential for alcohol.
FG = Final Gravity, anything from 1.000 to .996 is gonna be a dry wine as all of the fermentable sugars have been eaten by the yeast.
You dont have to specific with SG you add sugar to increase, add water to decrease.

[R1ch]

Wine at 0.996 to 1.000 will still have an off dry taste, (IMO, with experience) it really needs to be down to .990 to .992 to be dry.

It' also needs to be balanced with the acid levels to be drinkable, some commercial wines are quite acidic at the same time as being dry, this would replicate the sucking a lemon type dry you desire.. so maybe try upping the acid level slightly in what you make. Also keep the starting sg in check, so the yeast aren't too streesed getting the wine to dry levels. Aim for about 1.080 to start.

[Newbiewineman]

i must sound reallly thick but ive only ever made wine from kits and never checked the starting gravity.... it never said too
So with this wurzels orange wine i need to check the sg and make sure its near 1.000 am i reading that correctly and add more sugar to bring it closer to this and add more water to wind it down am i reading this correctly.
And once ive left this for x amount of time i need to check its at least .996 how long do you reckon it should take a week, 2 weeks or longer ..... and if i leave it longer will the fg keep dropping to make it dryer...
Im really sorry for the daft questions im a complete novice at this game and only used youngs before now