Which is better – to use fresh fruits from scratch or to rely on a wine making kit using grape juice concentrate?
The biggest advantage with using a grape juice concentrate-based wine making kit is convenience. Using a kit means you need not do much adjustment of sugar and acidity levels. That is why beginners are advised to use a wine making kit first before progressing to learning how to make homemade wine using fresh fruit like fresh grapes. Wine making kits can be bought inexpensively for $80 on-line at Heinsohn’s Country Store. Excellent fruit juice concentrate in 6.5 litre and 9 litre containers can be bought on-line for $60 at Perfect Brewing. If you use fresh grapes, be prepared to undergo a more complicated process for wine making. First, you need to crush the grapes well so that they are ready for fermentation. You then have to test the sugar level and the acidity level of the “must” or wine blend so that you can adjust it (because with grape juice concentrate you need not adjust much or at all.) So, an inexperienced vintner would find using fresh fruit to be less convenient and a bit in
