Chokecherry recipe add raisins or grape concentrate

Jack's chokecherry recipes call for 2 to 2.5 lbs added to a gallon. If you use 12-13 lbs to make 6 gallons you will be just about right, not double. If you want a port style wine, then you probably would want more fruit, use a high tolerance yeast and feed it sugar slowly so you can reach 18-19%. You might look at some typical port recipes and see how much fruit they use compared to regular wine recipes. If they use 50% more, then use 50% more chokecherries.

Ray

Funny that you asked that question, I was about to ask the same! My sister-in-law picked up a little more than 13 pounds of ripe chokecherries in Notre-Dame du Laus (Québec) and I wanted to make about 6 gallons of the stuff...

I was thinking of using the recipe on Jack Keller's website: wondering of the different outcome of using raising vs. grape concentrate but decided on using grapes. I hope if will come out nice...

I wonder if this is the kind or recipe you can easily double up the amount of fruit... What if I used Jack's recipe but triple all ingredients but instead of using 6 pounds of chokecherries I would 12-13 ? I would have to pay close attention to the SG but I wonder if I could obtain a port-style wine with that...

Would anyone have any suggestions on how to tweak Jack's recipe to get a port-style wine at the end ?

Thanks everyone :)