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**Sammyk** · 05-12-2012, 12:34 AM

Peach wine - I pulled a gallon out of storage today, it is now 6 months old. This was a Vinters Harvest 96 oz that I did 3 gallons.

We are having out of state company next week and I thought well, maybe. It was still as rough tasting as it was when all the fining was done. Put a clean airlock on it and put it back in storage. Added a pinch of kmeta to the gallon.

So, I think maybe what you are saying.... I will let the peach mango, strawberry, pineapple age and see.

One thing for sure the Peach Vinters Harvest did not smell nasty like the blend does.

**dangerdave** · 05-12-2012, 01:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Sammyk

Peach wine - I pulled a gallon out of storage today, it is now 6 months old. This was a Vinters Harvest 96 oz that I did 3 gallons.

We are having out of state company next week and I thought well, maybe. It was still as rough tasting as it was when all the fining was done. Put a clean airlock on it and put it back in storage. Added a pinch of kmeta to the gallon.

So, I think maybe what you are saying.... I will let the peach mango, strawberry, pineapple age and see.

One thing for sure the Peach Vinters Harvest did not smell nasty like the blend does.

We must be on the same page, Sammy. I made a peach-mango at the end of last year using Vintner's Harvest Peaches (plus some store-bought canned peaches) and natural mango extract for flavoring. I ended up with a five gallon batch. It was very flavorful and light on the tongue, and a crystal-clear-pale-yellow in color. The ladies drank it from mason jars, poured over frozen fruit. It's almost gone now.

I think our tropical fruit blend wines are going to take longer. Let's keep eachother posted on our progress.

Waiting...

**Sammyk** · 05-12-2012, 06:08 AM

Dave how long did you leave the peach age? I really thought at 6 months it would taste decent.

The red raspberry and the plum were made at the same time all, Vinters Harvest and they did not taste good either because I opened one of each of those two also.

All 3 had more alcohol taste then anything else.

**dangerdave** · 05-14-2012, 07:07 PM

We drank the Vintner's Harvest Peach/Mango right away, within three months of starting it. There was no problem with it. The tropical wine from the frozen fruit keeps recarbonating on me! I'm a little perplexed with it. I think I need to drink it up in temp a bit and try degassing again. Either way, that one is going to sit for a while, I think, unless it suddenly clears for me.

**Sammyk** · 05-15-2012, 12:09 AM

Dave did you sweeten or flavor the peach from VH?

**dangerdave** · 05-17-2012, 06:10 PM

Yes, Sammy. I made the batch for my daughter in the Air Force. With her input, I added 1 oz. of natural peach extract and 1 oz. of natural mango extract, and a little sugar. The wine came out very mellow, with rich fruit flavors. I have a few bottles left---only because I hid them! Heidi (my daughter) thinks it's all gone. She doesn't know I saved her a big bottle for her visit during 4th of July festivities. I'm soooo sneaky!

**Sammyk** · 06-05-2012, 11:23 AM

My peach/mango/strawberry/pineapple finally lost the "perm" smell and now has a nice fruit smell. This wine threw a ton of lees and had many racking. It still has a very strong alcohol smell. The carboys are now in the crawl space under the house aging.

johnpatrick · 10-17-2012, 09:27 PM

made some wine from 4lb of ripe peaches from Lidl,s smelled good when fermenting but after first racking smelt awful.not gonna dump it yet give it a few more months? i think there must be something in peaches that makes them smell so bad ihae tasted other peach wine and it has been great.

**joeswine** · 03-18-2013, 03:52 PM

check out when good wines gone bad,the thread were ,defects and wine faults are at,last item posted.

fruit wines can be very tricky .