Use excess wine for a port?

[mikeg77]

I saw an online recipe for making port that calls for 1 gallon of grape juice. I just so happen to have an extra gallon of juice that has already fermented for a week or so. Can I use that instead?

 

[Tusch]

That would depend on the recipe, care to share it?

 

[mikeg77]

This is the only one I could find. winemaking: Requested Recipe (Port Wine) If you have another, then I would be open to that too..

 

[toddrod]

You would need to drop some Camden in it first to kill the yeast, but I do not see why you couldn't.

 

[mikeg77]

cool thanks.. So how long should I wait after adding the camden to pitch the new strain of yeast?

 

[david_42]

That recipe calls for a gallon of grape concentrate, so if you have a gallon of juice, cut everything by a factor of four.

 

[mikeg77]

Good point... So really I would need almost 3 gallons of pure juice to make 6 gallons of this port so it's not ultra diluted?

 

[david_42]

More like four and reduce the water the same amount.