I've shared my wine at work and it has gone over pretty good. A co-worker has grapes growing in her yard of unknown varietal on a few overgrown vines growing along her fence and she asked if I could make wine out of it.
I quickly responded that yes I could make wine out of it, but I doubted that it would taste very good. We are talking less than 100 lbs, so maybe a few gallons.
Here is my plan to do a Rose with it. Crush the grapes, leave it on the skins for enough time to get some color. Press and adjust must to 24 brix, 3.5 ph. Ferment dry under airlock, age 5 months racking a few times. Filter, SO2, back sweeten if necessary to .5 brix and bottle. Would you change anything?
I may also throw some pressings from my Zin that I will be doing to get the fermentation going. It is not important that the wine taste authentic to the varietal, just something they can drink and say that that it came from their yard.
I quickly responded that yes I could make wine out of it, but I doubted that it would taste very good. We are talking less than 100 lbs, so maybe a few gallons.
Here is my plan to do a Rose with it. Crush the grapes, leave it on the skins for enough time to get some color. Press and adjust must to 24 brix, 3.5 ph. Ferment dry under airlock, age 5 months racking a few times. Filter, SO2, back sweeten if necessary to .5 brix and bottle. Would you change anything?
I may also throw some pressings from my Zin that I will be doing to get the fermentation going. It is not important that the wine taste authentic to the varietal, just something they can drink and say that that it came from their yard.