Just opened a bottle of the Vintners Reserve Shiraz I bottled in March. (Made exactly per instructions since this was my first experience at wine making, bottling around day 28.) It'd been a few months since I last tried one, which was still thin and not as smooth as I'd like. I just assumed it was because this was a 7.5L kitand that the rest of the batch would be the same. But yesterday's bottle tasted pretty good! This wine definitely improved between months 4 and 6. Although I'm on my third kit now (a 23LMM All Juice Cab) and don't plan on going back to the 7.5L kits, I was impressed at the difference the 6 months made. So from now on, I'm incentivized to let age do its thing. (OK, I'll still probably sneak a few bottles in between...)