Liebfraumilch / Hock style Kit??

[dpile1]

Hi there,

The missis is after me to make her some Liebfraumilch style wine.

It's the only wine she drinks and even then she mixes it with lemonade (the Heathen!)

I'm after a recommendation for a good attempt at Liebfraumilch or a Hock type six-bottle kit.

It needs to be cheap and cheerful and require little if any aging.

I was looking at the Butler, Beaverdale or the California Connoisseur range. I don't want to spend much more than a £10 on the kit seeing as the bottles of the real deal in Tesburys only cost £3 each and she's just going to put lemonade in it anyway..........

As always, thanks for any replies.

Darren

[NorthernWiner]

Any Riesling kit, finished to semi-sweet, should do the job.

[dpile1]

I think Young's do a cheap Liebfraumilch or a Riesling copy. They're the cheapest on the Market - reckon that'll be ok?

[NorthernWiner]

I can't speak for the Young's kit specifically because I have no experience with it. But my feeling is that you wouldn't need an expensive kit to get the result you're looking for.

[Cellar_Rat]

Later in the year you could fake one of these with an apple wine (cider mash fortified with sugar to 11%) and elderflower cordilal - remarkably close.

There will be a proper recipe somewhere - will have a dig.

[billybuntus]

Beaverdale have recently introduced a 6 bottle Liebfraumilch kit which is around £11