Is grape juice that sweet?

[WIMARIPA]

Wine is > 10% abv. Are the grapes sweet enough to make that happen or are there additives?

 

[Honda88]

you need to add sugar to the juice and if your gonna get serious you will need a hydrometer

 

[Yooper]

Wine grapes are indeed that sweet. Or rather, they have that much sugar in them. That's the only fruit that has enough natural sugar so that no additional sugar is used.

Other grapes, like concord or catawba grapes, do not have enough sugar and sugar is added to bring them to the correct starting gravity.

 

[WIMARIPA]

Thanks yooper, that's what I was wondering about. I have never actually tasted a wine grape.

 

[Yooper]

Thanks yooper, that's what I was wondering about. I have never actually tasted a wine grape.

We buy some to make wine, and I've had some at a winery at harvest time. They don't really taste that great, at least the cab franc grapes I had at the winery didn't.

 

[MarkKF]

I tried the Cayuga grapes fresh off the vine. Very tart. I was surprised cuz the wine is sweet.

 

[Dicky]

My parents dug up their grape wine last year because the grapes were tart didn't taste so great. I'ld bet it was a good wine grape wine. Such a waste.

Dicky