So for my first foray into winemaking I made it a father / daughter thing to do together. My daughter is 22 by the way. Anyway we did the Welch's thing, she did a white with bottled juice and I did a red with concentrate.
I learned from this fine forum, that I probably had a little weak wine because my recipe only had 2 concentrates in it. Oh well live and learn.
But since I back sweetened to mellow it a little and bring it down from 16.5% ABV to a respectable 13% that helped with the body. My daughter didn't have this issue as she didn't use concentrate.
Anyway I think for my first go around it worked out pretty good, tasted pretty good and I hope will get better with a little age.
If you would like to see our wines they are on my blog at Tumblr
Oh and we didn't have a filter, but degassing, racking, and being patient works pretty good for getting it to clear, after the fining agents.
I learned from this fine forum, that I probably had a little weak wine because my recipe only had 2 concentrates in it. Oh well live and learn.
But since I back sweetened to mellow it a little and bring it down from 16.5% ABV to a respectable 13% that helped with the body. My daughter didn't have this issue as she didn't use concentrate.
Anyway I think for my first go around it worked out pretty good, tasted pretty good and I hope will get better with a little age.
If you would like to see our wines they are on my blog at Tumblr
Oh and we didn't have a filter, but degassing, racking, and being patient works pretty good for getting it to clear, after the fining agents.
