By standard kit I was merely referring to it being a 7.5L kit, packets of yeast, pot meta, etc. I know it's a light picnic type "wine", or wine based beverage, if you prefer. That's what I was looking for. I tend to prefer a nice light, slightly sweet, white at times(of course, my favorites are actually big tannic reds, but it varies by mood and by what I'm eating). Definitely understand your concern about me not getting something I expected, and glad I reread what you said. At first, I must admit I was a little insulted, felt like you were saying I didn't know what I was talking about, but now that I reread what you said, can see that it was out of concern that I might not get what I expected, so thank you for your concern. now until I get a goodly supply of wine, and next will be another red, but after that looking to do a full white wine kit, probably one of the Selection kits from Brew King(went with the cheaper kits on the first two, Vintner's Reserve and this Island Mist now, but think I want to step up in potential quality of final product on the next two).
I was aware of the fact that most red wines gain the color from the skins, both from one book I've read and John Cleese's Wine for the Confused(which I highly suggest for those trying to learn about wines in general).
I will follow your suggestion on the Welch's, but primarily because I already have it in process, is in secondary right now under airlock. Thanks for the tip though. :) I've started 7 1 gallon batches of various wines from juices using Jack Keller's recipes(or 6 from juices and one from canned blueberries, which I just pitched the yeast in this morning).
Bordeaux Style 20Paul E. Lehmann But you're trying to cross the US and France's way of doing things but, IMHO, throwing out the best parts of each. I'm OK with the US way of labeling it...
I was mainly just curious as to whether this color was normal, as I haven't done enough kits yet, of either full wine kits, or the Island mist Wine based beverage kits, to know if this was normal color for a zinfandel juice. Thank you for your response though. :)
Have learned a lot already reading back messages in this group, sure I'll continue to learn more.
Joel
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