Bubbles in red wine

[Abs]

I've bottled a batch of coastal red but it doesn't seem to have turned out right. It seems acidic, overly tannic, and slightly fizzy.
When I decant it for a couple hours tiny bubbles appear on the surface. I followed all the instructions well.
I'm thinking secondary fermentation or I didn't degas it well enough.
What do you guys think?
Thanks
Abs


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[Kraffty]

How old/new is the wine?
Mike

 

[Abs]

Just bottled about a week ago.


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[peaches9324]

sounds to me like it needs degassing. If you were to leave it in the carboy for at least 9 mos with the periodic addition of some kmeta to prevent nasties it will release most of the gas itself. Acidic, tannin taste probably cuz its a young wine, I would give it more time

 

[garymc]

It seems to me with kits (I have never done one, but see people posting about them on here all the time) the salient difference is like using a stopwatch instead of a calendar. Age it in the carboy for months and months and then at least a couple of months in the bottle. The instructions seem to be all geared to time, x number of days to this, then x number of days to that. If the wine isn't finished in x number of days, then you're going to bottle it too early.

 

[sour_grapes]

I agree with the others -- it sounds like a perfectly normal, fine young kit wine.