rrawhide
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We just returned from a visit to Grass Valley, Ca to see my winemaker friend Rob who started me making wine over 30 years ago. He has a wonderful winery and his website is: www.avanguardiawines.com
On the way back we were able to stop at Calfornia Concentrate Co. in Acampo, Ca and also Delicato Winery in Manteca, Ca.
Each of these places sells 'grape juice' to home winemakers for 10 days in September every year. So, I bought 20 gallons of a red blend from Delicato. This year the blend was 47% zin, 37% syrah and 16% rubi-red (for color) and it was $3.10 per gallon. Bring your containers and back up to the filling station and fill.
So, here we go:
I had 2 - 15 gallon primaries and I put 10 gallons in each.
At California Concentrate they sell varietals in 6 gallon pails so I bought 1 each of: Pinot Noir; Petite Syrah and Old Vine Zinfandal. These were
about $34 each. (the other Old Vine is for a friend)
The Twisted product you see there was from Delicato - they are changing their packaging and label and were blowing these out at $20/case. The labels looked like halloween and did not work for them - 6 - 1.5L bottles or $3.33 per bottle.
It does not show well but the colors are bright orange and black with a bright orange capsule - did not do it for them. Pretty good wine too!
Anyway, the 'juice' is all going and here they are: (I did pull out about 1/2 gallon of the zin and a quart of the petite syrah to give it more room to work). May add it back in later or momma may make some jelly out of it OR my neice said to make grape juice popsicles. Hummmmmmmm!! Now there is an idea - the juice with the brix approx 23 it sure is sweet!! Old Vine Zin popsicles - I can see/taste it now!!
and the blend
I am sharing this with you for ideas. Maybe you can contact your local wineries and see if they also sell 'juice'. They cannot sell you 'bulk wine' (since you are not bonded) but they can juice. Then do your magic. Maybe they also have other wine/products that they cannot/will not sell and will blow them out cheap. If they do - pretty cheap bottles and with wine!!!!
Hope you enjoyed.
rrawhide
On the way back we were able to stop at Calfornia Concentrate Co. in Acampo, Ca and also Delicato Winery in Manteca, Ca.
Each of these places sells 'grape juice' to home winemakers for 10 days in September every year. So, I bought 20 gallons of a red blend from Delicato. This year the blend was 47% zin, 37% syrah and 16% rubi-red (for color) and it was $3.10 per gallon. Bring your containers and back up to the filling station and fill.
So, here we go:
I had 2 - 15 gallon primaries and I put 10 gallons in each.
At California Concentrate they sell varietals in 6 gallon pails so I bought 1 each of: Pinot Noir; Petite Syrah and Old Vine Zinfandal. These were
about $34 each. (the other Old Vine is for a friend)
The Twisted product you see there was from Delicato - they are changing their packaging and label and were blowing these out at $20/case. The labels looked like halloween and did not work for them - 6 - 1.5L bottles or $3.33 per bottle.
It does not show well but the colors are bright orange and black with a bright orange capsule - did not do it for them. Pretty good wine too!
Anyway, the 'juice' is all going and here they are: (I did pull out about 1/2 gallon of the zin and a quart of the petite syrah to give it more room to work). May add it back in later or momma may make some jelly out of it OR my neice said to make grape juice popsicles. Hummmmmmmm!! Now there is an idea - the juice with the brix approx 23 it sure is sweet!! Old Vine Zin popsicles - I can see/taste it now!!
and the blend
I am sharing this with you for ideas. Maybe you can contact your local wineries and see if they also sell 'juice'. They cannot sell you 'bulk wine' (since you are not bonded) but they can juice. Then do your magic. Maybe they also have other wine/products that they cannot/will not sell and will blow them out cheap. If they do - pretty cheap bottles and with wine!!!!
Hope you enjoyed.
rrawhide
