Plum wine with smell of port.

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crazyx2

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I've got a question...

Well I just bottled a 6 gal carboy of dark plum wine. Tasted good etc, forgot to take s.g which ill endeavour to do as I need to put corks in about half of the bottles which currently just have caps on them.

Thing is it has a distinctive port taste to it, do you think that is because it's still young and needs aging or is it because it fermented too long?

I don't really have any more details than this as I took over this project from my aunty half way through..

All in all I think it's quite nice, I was just wondering as its my first attempt at a plum wine..


Cheers!
 
there's not really enough information crazy,

you don't know how long it's been left in the carboy.. it could be the type of plums used combined with a very high alcohol, or it could have the port taste due to the yeast used, or that your aunty just used plum juice and didn't add any water. Or a secondary fermentation that will have given it a more sherry feel.

it could be any combination of things.

sorry I can't be more helpful...

Allie
 

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