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making wine from cherry juice?

I recently discovered that I really like tart cherry juice. That got me thinking that I might also like a wine made from cherry juice. I like dry wines, I don't like sweet wines. I wanted to make a wine from this store bought tart cherry juice but all the recipes I found online were designed to be made from cherries. Seems I could avoid a lot of steps if I can use the tart cherry juice. I'm not looking for some jailhouse hooch I want to make a decent wine. Any suggestions.

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"In fruit wine making you not only need the juice of the fruit but you also need the skin and pulp as well. The skin and pulp is referred to as must and every wine needs the correct amount of fruit to ferment properly. Just like sugar there is no wine without fruit skin and pulp. After you have created your mixture of juice and sugar another key ingredient is water. How warm or cold you make the water depends on what you want the yeast to do during fermentation. The whole idea behind water temperature is usually a well-kept secret among wine makers. During fermentation a wine maker has to keep an eye on the yeast being used and many wine makers prefer to remove the natural yeast that many fruits have and put their own yeast combination in to get their own desired results. Fruit wine making is like an art and a science together and people that are very good at it have years of experience." I don't know anything about it, but I found this quote on this website: http://fruitwinemaking.net/ Also, this website seems to have a lot of info: http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Popularity-of--Fruit-Wine-Making&id=990067
you could try smokin pot. thats funner than cherry wine juice. and why the phuck is a cowboy drinking wine. what happened to whisky or tequila? puzzy.
You need the fruit if you want it to turn out decent. You are going to want to ferment with it in contact with the skin for a length of time. Most commercial juice also has preservatives that would kill the yeast. And I've had some kick a** stuff made with sour cherries.
you would be better off with fruit juice concentrate made for wine making. try lerners.com i make a lot of wnes and like them dry. dry is not a problem when making homemade wine. you just let the wine work until the yeast dies from alcohol poisioning. cherry juice from the store will have preservatives. the post about needing skins and everything else is incorrect. many wines are made from grapes that have thier skins removed or from the juice only. home ine making i a great hobby. try to find a local club.
Here's a recipe from Jack Keller's wine website. He pretty much has a recipe for just about anything. It's for black cherry juice, but I'm betting tart cherry juice will substitute pretty easily. The proper enzyme and acid balance is what helps in making a juice only wine. Without the skins, you don't have that extra nutrient and acids, but it really isn't much of a problem. Wine's fermented without the skins is the process for making white wines. Good luck!
There are a lot of books on making fruit wines. I'm sure that you can find a recipe without too much effort. Just be sure that you have a brand of juice, such as Dimes, that contains no preservatives. You may have to adjust the sugar content to make good wine. Try a small batch at first. That will give you an idea of what modifications to make in your second batch. I use the stuff for a cherry beer, sort of a pseudo-kriek. Quite drinkable.
So long as the juice you are using is 100% juice with no additives or preservatives, you will be fine. There is a recipe that is quite common in the homebrewing world for Apfelwein that uses store-bought apple juice, and it comes out just fine. I would recommend you read up on winemaking if you are not already a homebrewer, as there is some specific equipment you will need. Check out http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/ for more information on home winemaking, and http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=14860 for the homebrewtalk.com thread for Edwort's Apfelwein. If the juice in question is 100% juice, with nothing added to it (check the ingredients) I would recommend a very basic test using just the juice and some wine yeast (maybe Red Star Cote de Blancs or Montrachet). All of the equipment you will need to make wine at home can be purchased as a 'starter kit' from a local homebrew shop, or online at http://www.midwestsupplies.com or http://www.austinhomebrew.com . Feel free to email me anytime if you need help or have any further questions.