This might be sacrilege but I'm wondering if it's ever been done. I've searched a bit and haven't found anything on it. Has anyone ever used a white wine base with a red wine grape to macerate and essentially make a rose wine? From what I've seen, rose is either macerated/free run red grape juice or a white wine/red wine blend, not what I'm talking about.
So my thought is...making a red wine out of a juice bucket with added grapes for body. Either not using all of them or just using the spent red grapes to add to a white juice bucket and make a rose. Is that crazy? Maybe use syrah grapes with viognier juice to create the inverse of a syrah/viognier blend? What do all the way more experienced winemakers say?
Edit: Note that I'm dumb and couldn't spell "White rose blend" in the title. Too much "whine" to drink before posting this
So my thought is...making a red wine out of a juice bucket with added grapes for body. Either not using all of them or just using the spent red grapes to add to a white juice bucket and make a rose. Is that crazy? Maybe use syrah grapes with viognier juice to create the inverse of a syrah/viognier blend? What do all the way more experienced winemakers say?
Edit: Note that I'm dumb and couldn't spell "White rose blend" in the title. Too much "whine" to drink before posting this
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