I’ve currently got about 100g of loose leaf green tea with elderflower, and 125g of an orange and passion fruit tisane (that also contains apple, hibiscus and rosehips), and I want to brew a wine from each separately, but I’m a bit of a novice so I could do with some advice!
Would it be absolutely necessary to use grapes/currants/gjc in both of them, as I would rather maintain more of those flavours than a stereotypical grape wine flavour? Or would they be completely lacking in body?
And if anybody has any experience with making wine from teas, do they have any advice as to the amount of water to use for ~100g of green tea (and sugar for that matter to hopefully leave some residual sweetness), and also for the tisane which is effectively just dried fruit devoid of actually tea leaves?
And finally, I have some turbo yeast, and I know that using turbo yeast for winemaking seems to be blasphemous, but would it be a possible to brew a small (1 gallon?) batch of tea based wine to see what it would taste like in the short term, or would the flavours be completely different from a proper fermentation?
Thanks in advance, I just don’t want to wait months for these batches only for them to be awful!
Would it be absolutely necessary to use grapes/currants/gjc in both of them, as I would rather maintain more of those flavours than a stereotypical grape wine flavour? Or would they be completely lacking in body?
And if anybody has any experience with making wine from teas, do they have any advice as to the amount of water to use for ~100g of green tea (and sugar for that matter to hopefully leave some residual sweetness), and also for the tisane which is effectively just dried fruit devoid of actually tea leaves?
And finally, I have some turbo yeast, and I know that using turbo yeast for winemaking seems to be blasphemous, but would it be a possible to brew a small (1 gallon?) batch of tea based wine to see what it would taste like in the short term, or would the flavours be completely different from a proper fermentation?
Thanks in advance, I just don’t want to wait months for these batches only for them to be awful!