Beaujolais Nouveau is the answer I give people for the most “Grape juice-y” tasting wine. Other types of Beaujolais are also grapey, fruity and incredibly delicious. And cheap. Love me some Beaujolais. If it’s the Welch’s taste you want, then you need an Vitis labrusca variety, like Concord.
An opened bottle of ruby Port will oxidize and degrade over time; it’s just that the time is much longer than that for other wines. I remember having an opened bottle of a vintage character Port like Six Grapes or Bin 27, for two weeks and not noticing much degradation. Of course, the winner in the “how long can I keep it open” contest is Madeira.
If you guys don’t like wines, why not just try a reisling?
Oh. Not red.
I have a bottle of Kosher merlot for my son’s birthday (we’re sponsoring the oneg on Friday) and I’m not that excited to try. It was $14 and so far I haven’t had a Kosher wine in my budget I was impressed with. But I’m not a wineo so maybe the grapiness is just regulated to American wines.
There is a Spanish winery Capcanes that puts out pretty decent Kosher wines at nice prices. The Mas Donis Barrica, a Garnacha blend, comes in at $10-$12.
Here’s what Wine Spectator has to say about how wine is made kosher.
The biggest challenge from a taste perspective is making Meshuval wine. Heat kills a lot of the flavor compounds found in wine and Meshuval needs to be heated, so there’s your Catch 22. As the article states, flash heating technology has been developed that does less damage but still meets the requirements, resulting in an overall improvement in Kosher wine quality. It’s still an expensive process, which is why finding a decent yet everyday priced Kosher wine is so hard.
Is plum wine considered a “red” wine? Or is it only wine made from grapes that gives the health benefits? (I’m leaning toward “it’s the grapes” but I’m too lazy to look it up). Because plum wine is both cheap and sweet. It’s tasty stuff. I’ll back up the others on here who have cited various kosher wines as being sweet and grape-juicy. In my very early days of drinking, that’s the kind of thing I would drink, because it didn’t taste like alcohol.
Plum wine is not a red wine per se since it’s not made of grapes… and I’ve seen some pale green plum wines.
I’ve never heard one way or the other about its health benefits… however, if I had to hazard a guess I’d say it has some. Maybe the same ones that regular plums have? Maybe someone else knows for sure.
I had something called “cupcake” wine, I think… I wish I could remember more details. It tasted a LOT like red grape juice, Welch’s, if not a bit sweeter.