Comments on: Tomato Wine Recipe http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/ Growing grapes and making wine in Bellevue Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:41:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tom http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-58099 Tom Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:23:14 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-58099 You must have bottled it by now. How was/is it? You must have bottled it by now. How was/is it?

]]> By: Erroll http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-33560 Erroll Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:11:31 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-33560 Thanks for the tip, Peter. I'll have to give that a try next time. Erroll Thanks for the tip, Peter. I’ll have to give that a try next time.

Erroll

]]> By: Peter Farias http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-33554 Peter Farias Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:35 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-33554 I have just made a batch of tomato wine and it tastes promising.Maybe because I added well bruised ginger with the tomatoes.It reduces the tomato flavour. Peter I have just made a batch of tomato wine and it tastes promising.Maybe because I added well bruised ginger with the tomatoes.It reduces the tomato flavour.
Peter

]]> By: Erroll http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-24217 Erroll Sun, 22 Feb 2009 01:53:14 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-24217 Hello Tod, It sounds like you have figured out how to make tomato wine just the way you like it. I'm still tinkering, but I'll keep your advice in mind next time I make some. Do you like all your wine to have such a high alcohol level? Or do you think tomato wine is better that way? Erroll Hello Tod,

It sounds like you have figured out how to make tomato wine just the way you like it. I’m still tinkering, but I’ll keep your advice in mind next time I make some.

Do you like all your wine to have such a high alcohol level? Or do you think tomato wine is better that way?

Erroll

]]> By: Tod Loughrige http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-24156 Tod Loughrige Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:53:43 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-24156 I consider myself fairly schooled at tomato wine making. I grow my own tomatoes and make tomato wine every year. It is my favorite wine of the several different wines I have attempted, and my best advice to you is to keep good records of all your "batches" and experiment until you find your "BEST". I started out making several 1 gal. batches, adjusted sugar, pH, and just about every little varience I could. I now have three 5 or 6 gal. carboys going! I prefer a high alcohol content, and I consistantly obtain 21 - 22% using Lalvin K1-V111 yeast, about 6 lbs. tomato per gal, and alot of sugar... enough to bring the S.G. up to 1.160 before fermentation. I realize this is high, but it ALWAYS becomes a very dry (.990 or lower) in time. Try it out! I consider myself fairly schooled at tomato wine making. I grow my own tomatoes and make tomato wine every year. It is my favorite wine of the several different wines I have attempted, and my best advice to you is to keep good records of all your “batches” and experiment until you find your “BEST”. I started out making several 1 gal. batches, adjusted sugar, pH, and just about every little varience I could. I now have three 5 or 6 gal. carboys going! I prefer a high alcohol content, and I consistantly obtain 21 – 22% using Lalvin K1-V111 yeast, about 6 lbs. tomato per gal, and alot of sugar… enough to bring the S.G. up to 1.160 before fermentation. I realize this is high, but it ALWAYS becomes a very dry (.990 or lower) in time. Try it out!

]]> By: MissJ http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-11452 MissJ Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:31:49 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-11452 I made tomato wine in 2007, from tomatoes I grew in my own garden. I used Jack Keller's instructions. It turned out just like a dry white wine in both looks and taste, but with a slight tomato finish. I took it to my winemaking club meeting this August and had people guess what it was made from. All guessed white grapes! I planned to mostly use it for cooking, so bottled it in 187 ml. bottles. I made tomato wine in 2007, from tomatoes I grew in my own garden. I used Jack Keller’s instructions. It turned out just like a dry white wine in both looks and taste, but with a slight tomato finish. I took it to my winemaking club meeting this August and had people guess what it was made from. All guessed white grapes! I planned to mostly use it for cooking, so bottled it in 187 ml. bottles.

]]> By: Erroll http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-3556 Erroll Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:36:32 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-3556 Hi lebac, It's only been a month and a half since I pitched the yeast, and I usually don't bottle my wines until they've aged for about a year. I did taste the wine at it's <a href="http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/31/tomato-wine-first-racking/" rel="nofollow">first racking</a>, and it tastes like too young. Nobody is more impatient than I am to see how this turns out and what it tastes like, but you'll have to wait along with me to find out! I'll be posting updates as I rack the wine and it matures. You may want to <a href="http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/feed/" rel="nofollow">subscribe</a> so that you get each article as it's published without having to check back all the time. In the meantime, why don't you tell me about that sweet chili tomato jam? I have no idea how it would taste, but now I really want to try some. Erroll Hi lebac,

It’s only been a month and a half since I pitched the yeast, and I usually don’t bottle my wines until they’ve aged for about a year. I did taste the wine at it’s first racking, and it tastes like too young. Nobody is more impatient than I am to see how this turns out and what it tastes like, but you’ll have to wait along with me to find out! I’ll be posting updates as I rack the wine and it matures. You may want to subscribe so that you get each article as it’s published without having to check back all the time.

In the meantime, why don’t you tell me about that sweet chili tomato jam? I have no idea how it would taste, but now I really want to try some.

Erroll

]]> By: lebac http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/comment-page-1/#comment-3553 lebac Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:38:38 +0000 http://www.washingtonwinemaker.com/blog/2007/12/22/tomato-wine-recipe/#comment-3553 how'd it taste? and what if anything would you cook/eat with it? and would you recomned me trying to make it in a (beer) home brew? and try putting it with sweet chilly sauce! I've made sweet chilly tomato jam and it's great! (family recipe so can't tell!) how’d it taste? and what if anything would you cook/eat with it? and would you recomned me trying to make it in a (beer) home brew? and try putting it with sweet chilly sauce! I’ve made sweet chilly tomato jam and it’s great! (family recipe so can’t tell!)

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