Vote for Your Health

If you have chosen not to be the grand noble experimenter in your quest for home made basics wine then you will have opted to use concentrated grapes instead of fresh or using other types of fruit. Good choice for the rank beginner as there are a few other wine making skill you may want to master first with out adding all the variables that using fresh fruit can bring into play. There are still some cavets to be aware of. Using grape concentrates does not remove all of the science involved in the process it cuts in half.

Good basics wine from concentrates needs special attention paid to the water you use to reconstitute the grape juice. Tap water and well water both need treatment and could still adversely effect your final taste so why bother. Distilled water is too pure and will stop the yeast from doing it job so nix that. Bottled water is better but many times bottled water is just someones city tap water, cleaned up a bit, bottled and labeled, but its still just plain old tap water with all the thingies that could be in any tap water.

Why pay for something you’ll still have to process. The best is containerized or bottled Spring water. Read the small print on the label even when the largest print on the label says natural spring water. Look on the label for the source of the water, and whether or not it has been treated and tested for purity or if it has been ozonated. If so you’re good to go.