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    Kit Wine Taste

    Thanks for your interest, Zintrigue! So what I can remember is that the first batch I did had these off flavors and smells, and I found a film yeast in secondary. I peeled the stuff off and drank the batch - it wasn't particularly good but I gave a lot away. I bought a new primary fermentation...
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    Kit Wine Taste

    Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I live in Venezuela, which doesn't have a wine industry to speak of or much of a climate for growing grapes. I had the same infection concern when I made my first batches - especially after getting a film yeast growing in secondary on one of them. So I...
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    Kit Wine Taste

    I've had a series of unpleasant aromas and flavors associated with all of the wine kits I've done, and I'm not entirely sure if it's kit taste or something else that I'm doing wrong. The first kit that I can definitely say I didn't screw up was an Eclipse Lodi Old Vine Zin. It overall tastes...
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    Temperature control at altitude

    That's actually quite funny, but no, I've never gotten salami out of it. The overall smell for me is one of fake fruit, a Kool-aid type aroma and flavor. And maybe just lousy table wine. I remember when it was in primary it sort of smelled like dust and weeds. Salami probably makes a better...
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    Temperature control at altitude

    Hi - Thanks for the responses! I'm not entirely sure what I'm smelling, but whatever it is seems to linger from the first moment of primary fermentation to wine that's been in the bottle for six months. The overheating thing is really just my hunch because it reminds me of similar off flavors...
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    Temperature control at altitude

    I've now got my third batch of wine in secondary fermentation and it's got the same "off" smell as my first two batches. I at first identified this as the result of an infection, but I changed all my equipment and am getting the same smell, so I wonder if this is just fermenting too hot. This...
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    Sulfur smell in first batch

    Hi everyone - On Sunday I started my first batch of wine, a 6-gallon Winemaker's Reserve Malbec kit from concentrate. I got an original gravity of 1.090 and added one package of EC-1118. It started chugging right away and within the first few days had fermented down to about 1.060. I've tried to...
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