I have 10kg's of gooseberries. Can I press them and make wine from the pure must without adding any water (recipes online tend to have a 2:1 ratio water and gooseberries) or will it become too concentrated?
EDIT: To clarify, I'm making a gooseberry and elderflower wine that in the end will age for some time. I aim for it to have some sweetness and some acidity (pH 3.6 during fermentation, then possibly lower in the end if needed for better flavour) to balance it out, and I want a more intense flavour so I'm a bit thrown off by seeing all of the recipes calling for a lot of water added to the batch, since I thought in winemaking you squeeze fruits/berries and ferment it (long story short)
EDIT: To clarify, I'm making a gooseberry and elderflower wine that in the end will age for some time. I aim for it to have some sweetness and some acidity (pH 3.6 during fermentation, then possibly lower in the end if needed for better flavour) to balance it out, and I want a more intense flavour so I'm a bit thrown off by seeing all of the recipes calling for a lot of water added to the batch, since I thought in winemaking you squeeze fruits/berries and ferment it (long story short)
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