My Green Apple Riesling was FANTASTIC at 4-5 years. I do not do anything other than extra time in the bucket and also the carboy. I filter with a Mini-Jet. The Exotic Fruit White Zinfandel did not hold up that long. It lost a lot of flavor.
At least one of the larger wholesalers adjusted their acid blend to contain 50 percent citric without passing that information to us. I assume it is for cost savings as tartaric is extremely expensive (in comparison). We buy the individual acids by the sack and mix our own to contain 50 percent...
:db My wife an I just bottled the Margarita and Mojito. Some interesting notes. The base liquid looked and tasted the same, from what I could tell. Very dry and potent, with a neutral, non-wine type of flavor. We added the F-packs after filtering with #3 pads. The Mojito has the color of...
I finally got the time to rack my Twisted Mist kits (one of each). They both look and smell the same. Maybe the same "base" used for both kits. I don't know. I was trying to do them by Timmys rules, omitting no detail, but racking was two days late. During active fermentation they did not have...