dgwyn
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I just tasted my first batch of wine. It's the World Vineyard Frnech Cabernet Sauvignon. I bottled it on 25-Jan and opened the first bottle on 25-Feb, one month later. I would have to describe it as rather undrinkable. It still had the same metalic smell it had when I bottled it, although it had declined a bit. Of course smells are hard to describe, but it wasn't sulphur or anything else that I recognized. I had decanted it to try reduce the order, but that didn't help much.
As it was my first batch, I did learn an important element and that is next time I will rack one extra time than indicated in the directions. I pulled out a bit of sediment when racking it into the bottling bucket, and noticed a bit in each bottle after laying down for a month. I had turned the bottle I tried on end two days prior, and then gently decanted it. I'll know better next time.
So, is the smell in the wine likely to just be from it's tender age, the little bit of sediment in the bottle, or could there be something else? I just bottled an RJSpagnols cab blend that tasted much better right out of the carboy, but it too had a bit of that oder as well.
As it was my first batch, I did learn an important element and that is next time I will rack one extra time than indicated in the directions. I pulled out a bit of sediment when racking it into the bottling bucket, and noticed a bit in each bottle after laying down for a month. I had turned the bottle I tried on end two days prior, and then gently decanted it. I'll know better next time.
So, is the smell in the wine likely to just be from it's tender age, the little bit of sediment in the bottle, or could there be something else? I just bottled an RJSpagnols cab blend that tasted much better right out of the carboy, but it too had a bit of that oder as well.