I'm just gonna outline my thought process here, I'm new to wine making, so just correct me where i'm wrong.
I want to make a dry, full bodied wine. It seems that there are a few ways to get a full body, (using more fruit for your must, adding banana, adding raisins, etc). i want to go with raisins, because from what I've read this helps accentuate the fruit flavors, and I plan on fermenting until its dry as it will go and have no intention of back sweetening, so strong fruit flavors seem like they would be a good idea. I haven't read anything on raisins having tannins. but the blueberry wine recipes I have seen call for either raisins or tannins, would adding both just be too much? Lastly I'm looking for a yeast that will tolerate a 14% plus wine and give some spice esters to my wine, suggestions there would be really helpfull.
So currently the plan is this.
3lbs frozen blueberries
1Lb rasins
water to 1gal
Add 1tsp of pectic enzyme
tanins
acid?
Sugar to 1.12 sg
pitch whatever yeast the gurus say.
thoughts?
Thanks for the help,
John