Real fruit v Juice ?

[pvt_ak]

So ...
Started out doing WoW .... and it gives good easy slugging wine but....

Then got in to fruit making wine and ....

Just opened a bottle of rhubarb wine made early in the summer and it totally whoops the ass off the wow wines I’ve made .

Question is , why ?


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[Tau]

Most juices have been processed, chemically treated or boiled to extract flavour and sweetened or had things added for easy drinking such as acidity modifiers, tannin redcued through dilution and what not. In wine making we want bitter tannin and dry and high quanities of the natural acids in the fruit that makes for a better wine.

 

[tonyhibbett]

A similar principal applies to almost tasteless supermarket fruit versus home grown. However, the fruit juice is still very useful if combined with fresh and wild fruit. The same is true of cheap kits. I recently greatly improved a Winebuddy 'sauvignon blanc' kit by adding fresh elderflowers.