Pink wine

[treacheroustexan]

Hey guys, don't know much about winemaking but know I love a sweet, pink wine. I can't seem to find any recipes or information on making it at home though. Anyone have experience making one or have a recipe? A local winery makes an awesome pink catawba wine and I would love to make something similar. Does the color come from that specific grape?

Thanks!

 

[bernardsmith]

It probably comes from the skins but the skins will need to be removed after a fairly short time otherwise the wine will be red and not rose.

 

[mredge73]

Take a look at the Island Mist kits.
You want to look at the Moscato, Rieslings, and Shiraz kits.

https://www.homebrewsupply.com/winexpert-world-vineyard-pink-moscato-wine-kit-limited-edition.html

 

[passedpawn]

Pink Mascato. Homebrewsupply has great prices on this Winexpert kit.

To make them sweet, the process will involved using kmeta to stop yeast activity, THEN you add the "fpack", which is just more grape juice. Because the yeast is inactive, this additional juice will not ferment, and the wine will remain sweet.

I just made the white moscato kit (I carbonated mine).

 

[treacheroustexan]

Thanks guys!

 

[Yooper]

FWIW, I have done pink catawba grape wine several times. My friend (who is now deceased, sadly) grew them.

The "recipe" comes from a traditional grape wine recipe. I crushed, fermented on the skins for a few days, racked off and finished. I don't like sweet wines, so I did mine dry but sweetening a finished wine is very easy.

If you want to get your feet wet, I'd suggest a kit as above. Then if you want to try grape wines, that would be the next step. There are crushing, pressing, acid adjustments, chaptalization, stabilizing, etc techniques to be aware of but it's not all that difficult once you get the feel for what you're making.

 

[Mustbite]

Hi everyone, new to this forum but have been following for some time now. Thanks for all the advice in to making my brewing experience great. Been brewing beer for 2 years now and just started my first red wine. It's tasty with alcohol content at 14% but it's purple. Any suggestions why this could be? Secondary fermentation has stopped about 2 weeks ago and I have transferred it once to a new vessel for clearing. Will bottle it in a week from now.

 

[madscientist451]

Let it bulk age a while before you bottle it. The purple color will drop out. If you bottle too soon, you'll get a bunch of sediment in your bottles that will get stirred up when you pour.

 

[Mustbite]

Thank you will do, already I can see a color difference from 2 weeks ago. I'll leave it another month or so and then check it again.