I got a winemaking kit for my birthday this past weekend. I'm planning on trying a concord/raspberry wine first. One of my favorite wines is from Mountain Valley Winery in Pigeon Forge Tenn, and it is a concord/raspberry that they call mountain berry. I know I won't be able to duplicate this on my first try, but I'd like to come close. I'm just going to use Welchs concentrate, so I'm not expecting miracles here.
Now for the questions:
I plan on adding the raspberry to the secondary, I'm thinking it will be a raspberry puree instead of whole raspberries depending on what I can find.
Can I just add it to the carboy and let it go? This is the only part that is confusing to me. If I do use fresh, well probably frozen raspberries, do I keep the wine in the (now sanitized)primary bucket for the second? or do I drop them one by one into the glass carboy? There is no way to get the nylon bag I bought inside the carboy that came with the kit.
I had considered making it a pyment first, but I think I'm also going to concurrently make a small back of mead to go with it.
Now for the questions:
I plan on adding the raspberry to the secondary, I'm thinking it will be a raspberry puree instead of whole raspberries depending on what I can find.
Can I just add it to the carboy and let it go? This is the only part that is confusing to me. If I do use fresh, well probably frozen raspberries, do I keep the wine in the (now sanitized)primary bucket for the second? or do I drop them one by one into the glass carboy? There is no way to get the nylon bag I bought inside the carboy that came with the kit.
I had considered making it a pyment first, but I think I'm also going to concurrently make a small back of mead to go with it.
