Strong wine?

[spriggan486]

Hi,

I am doing a very simple wine experiment by fermenting about 2 1/2 gallons of 100% grapejuice. Will this be too strong? should I add some water at bottle time?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[Yooper]

It shouldn't be strong at all. Grape juice does have some fermentable sugar, but not all that much. My Welch's recipe is about 12% ABV, but I add table sugar to it to boost it up. Without the table sugar added, you should be in the 8% neighborhood, possibly less.

 

[phred_02]

That is how most commercial grape wine is made. It should work out just fine.