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1 | What is 'the fruit of the vine'? | Matt 26:29 | Tim Sheasby | 35309 | ||
I live in the winemaking region of South Africa. I emailed the winemaker at one of our local wineries and here is the content of her reply. Dear Sir Thank you for your enquiry. The first person is correct - you can make a wine with an alcohol level of max 15 from natural grapes without adding sugar or alcohol, but it will be quite dry. The natural sugar in the grapes are converted into alcohol in the natural fermentation process. Normally the yeast on the skins ferments very quickly if not cooled and it's not a very good type of yeast to go on, as it happens so quickly that all the processes don't finish and you might still sit with sugars in the wine. (It also smells bad!) That's why we add yeast to control the whole process better. It is also possible to make a reasonably good, sweet wine naturally, but the alcohol will be very low, as I explained - grape sugars turn into alcohol - so the higher the alcohol the lower the sugar content. The only way you'll be able to get high sugar and high alcohol will be if you add either of the two or both, as in Ports and Sherries. I hope this will help you. Kind regards Carina Visser Assitant to Winemaker From a professional wine maker I find that your contention that a strong wine cannot be made from just grapes is unsubstantiated. Teaching our children is the responsibility of every parent. Just like I teach them not to over-indulge in food (gluttony) I am also going to teach them the sin and danger of overindulging in wine (alcohol). At the same time I have no right to condemn what God has not condemned. I will follow Bible guidelines rather than the abstentionist views of many modern churches. In His Service Tim Sheasby |
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2 | What is 'the fruit of the vine'? | Matt 26:29 | EdB | 35332 | ||
All this person said was true (Although I believe they are a little high on alcoholic content, I remember it being much lower) did you read the part about "it smells bad"? Let me put it a little more graphically it would make a goat puke! Something I would want to sit down with and enjoy my Passover. From the lips of your expert. "It is also possible to make a reasonably good, sweet wine naturally, but the alcohol will be very low, as I explained - grape sugars turn into alcohol - so the higher the alcohol the lower the sugar content." Did you read the part about VERY LOW? What do you want me to do say your expert is wrong? I think this is exactly what I have been saying all along. To make potable wine naturally the alcoholic content would be so low most would consider it non alcoholic. Let this silliness end. If you want to drink fine if you want to use wine in communion fine, you don’t have to justify it to me. Just don't tell me if I use grape juice I'm wrong because the Bible specifies wine. EdB |
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