Wanted to give a report on our first attempt at fruit wine.
SUCCESS! After about 5 months in the bottle, we impatiently cracked one open a bottle of blueberry last night. I expected that it would still be a little too tart, considering that I left the wine dry (I followed the recipe on this web site, with the exception of the grape juice concentrate). Surprisingly, it was very well balanced, with a very distinct blueberry flavor. I wish now that I had picked enough blueberries for 6 gallons, instead of two. I have one other gallon of blueberry mead (melomel?) in the carboy now. I'm really looking forward to that one.
I also have a gallon of frozen strawberry wine that is about a month away from bottling. After a month in the carboy, it shows no signs of clearing.
I don't want to filter it. I wanted to try gelatin. For those of you that have used this, how much would I use for a gallon of wine?
SUCCESS! After about 5 months in the bottle, we impatiently cracked one open a bottle of blueberry last night. I expected that it would still be a little too tart, considering that I left the wine dry (I followed the recipe on this web site, with the exception of the grape juice concentrate). Surprisingly, it was very well balanced, with a very distinct blueberry flavor. I wish now that I had picked enough blueberries for 6 gallons, instead of two. I have one other gallon of blueberry mead (melomel?) in the carboy now. I'm really looking forward to that one.
I also have a gallon of frozen strawberry wine that is about a month away from bottling. After a month in the carboy, it shows no signs of clearing.