I Took Welch’s Wine to FRANCE – Experts React!

I made a bottle of delicious (depending on who you ask) Welch’s Wine and took it all the way to France. I had experts in one of the best wine regions in the world sample the wine and tell me if it’s actually good.

Wine Dine Caroline: https://www.youtube.com/@UCDGoeRS_sA8BzAzra5rz9SQ

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This is some of the worst wine ever made here’s the story of how I took it all the way to a world-renowned wine region in France and had it taste tested by actual wine Experts in a previous video I tried to trick my wife into thinking that fermented weles grape juice potentially the most disgusting Hooch ever made was fine wine I put it in fancy bottles and I really played it up she passed the test and knew it wasn’t store-bought but

You know what she didn’t think it was all that bad thank you and in the comments of that video a bunch of people left suggestions for how it could make it better some people swore that when made correctly weles wine is some of the best wine ever so using some of these

Suggestions I’m going to make more wine and I’m going to take it to Leon France literally one of the best wine regions in the entire world unbelievably I was able to have it tasted by actual wine experts in Leon some locals and even a couple of tourists all right first I

Need to make some more wine and because not everyone watching this video group in the United States I should mention that Welches is a very popular grape juice in the US made for kids it’s not for making wine but turning it into wine is actually incredibly easy and only

Involves four steps aate some Welch’s grape juice by shaking the bottle add some wine yeast toss an airlock on it and leave it sit for a few weeks then transfer it to a bottle and seal the entire process can be accomplished using less than $20 worth of equipment and a

Few bucks worth of supplies and in fact once you have the fermenter airlock siphon and Corker Welch’s wine can literally be made for about two bucks a bottle I’ll link this stuff below if you want to give it a try all right the wine is done time to head to France here’s

The obligatory travel Montage I was initially just planning on serving wine to folks on the street but that was before I met Caroline from the wine da Caroline YouTube channel and Leon wine tastings Caroline grew up in us and now lives in Leon where she provides super high-end private food and wine tastings among other things

Caroline speaks fluent French and is well connected in the wine world uh which helped me take this horrible experiment to an entirely other level she introduced me to an actual smia and a bunch of other people who work professionally in the wine industry but the first victim was a local farmer that

We met at a farmer market here’s what he thought the girl only does not tasted I have not tasted this yet it smells like grape Juice see all up up well basically um they’re just like it’s very weak okay and and it and that word up it attacks your tongue it’s sour if you were really thirsty you could drink this very cold and you were very thirsty it would be okay okay he did say he

Would drink it if it were cold and it was hot outside so I will take that as a compliment I promise we’ll get to the professional wine tasters here soon before that though a couple of guys we met in a coffee shop were kind enough to

Drink this stuff at 10:00 a.m. on a Monday morning so Props to them for being so cool about it they’re also hilarious check it out uh I’m G I live there in CLS and uh I like good wine okay right okay and I’m m one and I like to the good Way it’s surprising made grapes really what do you think it smells like what’s it smell like um a weird soda I don’t feel there is some alcohol inside one of the most surprising things to me about this experiment was that a number of the tasters were able to tell that it

Was low ABV wine which is correct I actually forgot got to add additional sugar meaning it was only about half strength something like 6 or 7% ABV and smell like pastries like an old blueberry muffin from Starbucks okay I agree here we go Cheers Cheers not bad not good not good it tastes like honey okay A bit how would you describe it if you were to describe it in French it’s a all right it’s a little sour exactly yeah what cheese would you pair that with Shar shadar cheese I don’t want to be rude

But I think I want uh don’t the pl me too thanks a lot okay after that I now am a little nervous to serve this to actual Somalia um let alone a master of vitner let’s do one more warm-up round this time with a couple of American

Tourists I met randomly I do apologize the first part of this is out of focus but they’re just so entertaining I couldn’t cut it smell the so I’m here with uh Jay from West Virginia yeah born and raised West Virginia okay we’re France right now how

What are you doing here so uh my wife and I live in Germany and every July we take a extended vacation to Southern France and we always stop in Leon Jay and his wife are curers of wine we I like it they drink a lot of wine so you

Guys have been to it sounds like a lot of places to drink wine around here like the different regions which whether it be Jura burgundy the rone river valley cant five or six different wine regions in France that we’ve gone to and you picked up wine on this trip to bring

Back to Germany that’s right the car 12 cases of wine in the car 12 cases of wine in your car the shocks are the shocks are screaming right now that’s for sure I think you’re qualified to taste this wine okay I’m going to take a little pour

Myself cheers you s getting in there getting the boutique yeah what do you think what’s it smell like it smells like Welch’s grape juice it smells exactly like Welch’s grape juice goober grape I hadn’t told him how I made the wine yet so he absolutely nailed it with

That guess okay so it it definitely is made with Welch’s grape juice oh I I know that yeah all right here we go let’s give it a taste uh that’s that does not tastes like it smells at all it tastes different it ain’t half bad I so these

Um tastings were actually filmed in a different order than I put them in this video it should be noted that it did taste significantly better at this point than it did after it had been in my backpack sloshing around for 4 days in 90° weather this is weird this is like

My my senses are like overloaded right now yeah cuz I smell goober grape I mean it smells like sugary grape juice when you smell it but it does not taste that way at all so it’s not necessarily good but it’s not as bad as you would think

If you served this with a peanut butter and cracker it’d be awesome yeah it tastes like a table wine that you would get at like a shitty Italian place in Jersey all right man thanks dude I appreciate I’ll finish it cheers yeah it’s dry it’s got like Cherry no tannins

Obviously cu it’s just like a really fruity but drinkable wine Yellow Jack it’s all about take a kisse of that back home to Germany maybe just a bottle pull it out for a special occasion so polite it tastes like it’s Catholic wine yeah that’s right yeah are we doing communion this

Morning all right now the Moment of Truth time for the big guns the actual wine professionals first up is faroo who is an actual somaler uh he’s the one that I’m most worried about because to become a Somalia you have to prove that you know what you’re talking about Faruk

Shabi I’m a Somalia in Palm Spring California okay I work in a country club born in tja grew up in France and now I’m American citizen and have been in the US for 31 years I’m in Leong with wonderful people and with the wine maker

Want want to be big the first thing that comes to mind knows it reminds me of kind of bubble gum I mean when I look at it I think it’s maybe B gumy grap opir there a drink but I don’t know which One it’s the um s by W in sat I forget the name yes thank you it’s for me it’s just a uh grape juice wine I mean a grape juice grape juice does it taste just grape juice yeah grape juice for me it is grape

Juice na it alcohol in it so you it doesn’t taste like there’s a lot of alcohol in there I don’t get any it’s just grape juice for me it’s about 6 to 7% maybe 7 and a half Max so lambor schol look alike lambor schol wab

Be so what do you want to achieve with that what I wanted to achieve was this I wanted to know you know what people would think because some people think this is good some people think that you can take this grape juice and and add

Wine ye and it’s good yeah I feel like you’re losing energy on it okay so you would say that this is probably a dead end Road like a what do you call it different direction yes like for me yeah I’m just being honest it’s not going to

Age well in your seller I don’t see the purpose my name is Sicily I work in the wine IND industry in the states we’re in the states Napa okay Napa I have a PR Company that represents Wineries and I write a little bit about wine okay

Gotcha and where are we right now I am in Leon France at Leon wine tasting but I am originally from London England first when I look at it it’s like this kind of ruby red like if I was served it at a wine bar restaurant I wouldn’t be

Surprised it looks the real deal yeah on the nose it’s got that kind of um you know when you get like a grape flavored candy it’s like that but then it’s still legit like if I was given this at a restaurant I’d be like oh okay but I wouldn’t send it back Necessarily it’s foxy hold up did we just get our first compliment because foxy is a good thing where I come from like a fur coat like wet fur like wet yeah like moldy wet fur okay and no she meant like a literal wet animal but yeah like you can’t taste the alcohol in

It it’s not sweet but it’s like not as bad as I thought it would be okay I’m Caroline Connor otherwise known as wine dine Caroline I live in Leon France where I get people drunk and I’ve been a wine expert for 15 years now and uh I’m

Very curious about this wine I got into wine at the beginning cuz I did competitive blind wine tasting during my undergraduate studies at Oxford which is pretty nerdy I have a business where I teach English-speaking tourists all about wine here in leyon and this is my house welcome thank you it smells like

Gushers from 1998 like like you found gushers from 1998 under your like childhood bed in your parents house an N Sync post toaster was wrapped around it uh let’s see what it tastes like it’s pretty sour it’s not sweet so it doesn’t taste as sweet as you think

It’s going to be when you smell it it is Foxy it has um yeah like a a funky aftertaste of of you know death but yeah it’s not very alcoholic it’s very light like I think others have said it it’s drinkable sure if you’re very thirsty

It’s not horrible it’s not wine yeah it has no tear wire it’s not it’s not wine it’s a wine product you could sell it as a wine product it’s 6% put this [ __ ] in the can people will buy it uh craft Welches has a new business model put

This in a can in a juice box make it into gushers drunk gushers alcohol you alcoholic gushers that’s a great idea thank you so much KY for bringing this all the way to France for me so this last segment is by far my favorite it’s with JB the owner of the mount Jolly

Winery outside of Leon France he was one of my favorite people uh that I got to hang out with while I was there among a bunch of awesome people and uh it was nice enough to take taste my horrible wine his family’s been making wine for several Generations in the same plot of

Land in fact the mantle above the fireplace in his tasing room uh had a date curved in it which was 3 years after the establishment of the United States of America so they’ve been doing this for a minute anyway thanks to JB make sure you watch this last one

Because it’s pretty amazing that’s way too nice of a glass for this are you sure yeah okay okay fine we’ll put it in there I’m JB Jean batist and we are in in and we’re about to drink some fine uh wine that I brought with me I usually

Serve this in paper cups but we have some proper wine glasses here I feel like this is course we do so this is wine that I made M that’s interesting it made from grape yeah grape juice grape juice okay yeah no no I feel something different like grapes

Like definitely food that’s unusual yeah I’m trying to find out what it is I’m glad you put it in a bottle shaped bottle yeah another B one [Applause] cheers to be fair we’ve done a wine tasting he spit out all the wines that we’ drank so not all of okay now it’s dry okay which doesn’t seems like American wine tastes like blueberry you know like something that it kind of does have a blueberry taste

Yeah I’m I’m so sorry I I cannot swallow that so I’m taking it you don’t love it I I do love it because you made it okay sure all right I appreciate that cheers to that um no no it’s not my style let’s say that okay now your style ni okay so

This was made um with Welch’s grape juice is a very famous uh estate in the United States this was just like um grape juice like 9-year-old kids like my son would drink Welches grape juice um but I took it from the store I added wine yeast and then uh fermented it and

Then this is where we are okay do they sell that really uh nobody sells this no yeah this is just something that I made for the internet primarily so it has a very peculiar like concord grape kind of smell so it’s a it’s a different grape it’s a concord grape the like grape

Jelly America yeah that’s why I was feeling like blueberry or like a jelly or Jam or something yeah so but it’s clean nobody yeast no bacterias no VA which is good starts yeah but not great not horrible but not great maybe not even good but not horrible it’s not drinkable but it’s horrible

All right that’s all we needed that’s what we needed cheers salty I wish just the next Okay thank you very Much