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"Hello,
I've got a bunch of bottles of home-made red-zinfandel wine.
Anyone know of a recipe to turn it into a standard brandy?
Thanks in advance,
Steve"
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"Hi Steve.
If you don't mind my asking,,,,.....if you had your druthers,,,,,,,,what kind of brandy would you (personally) like to have?........Cuz your response will dictate mine."
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I'm thinking a straight brandy. Not a fruit brandy. Not a grappa.
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"Ok so that response kind of confuses me as any distillate made with fruit is brandy as such.
Our brothers over in the slavic part of the planet may refer to their plum distillate as slivovitz (or the like). Recon there are a few different names for distillate made from fruit. Really a language kinda thang. We English speakers refer to fruit distillate as Brandy.
Often times, Gents may like to hold back a bit of their wine to flavor their distillate. Or, hold back a good bit of wine,,,,and make a fortified wine.
Couple of options really.
Please continue with your line of thinking so that we can help ourselves."
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Sorry. It's normal grape wine, so it would technically be a grape brandy.
How would one "hold back a bit of their wine to flavor their distillate"?
I would love to work towards a port some day as well!
Steve
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"You can ""save"" or ""hold back"" a measure. And then add to your distillate at barrel strength for aging.
The ""measure"" is up to you. Trust your taste buds.
But my original thinking was that perhaps you might be looking for a pear or some such thing.
you can take a fruit distillate (or any nuetral) and cut to 40% or 30% with a fruit juice or nectar. And distill nice and easy. Or,,,, also add the necter to your thumper (if you have one).
The fruit will carry over quite nicely.
Just thinking out loud."
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I am not sure if this is what you are looking for. But you can take some wine and freezer. Once it has started to freeze pull it out and remove the liquid and leave the ice. What you get is a brandy of sorts. You can also just use a simple distill process. Much like you would distill shine. But replace your mesh with your wine. Keep in mind what you are going to get from distilling is going to be a much higher proof then if you freeze.
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