Good for you. Sometimes you get surprised - I bottled my pumpkin wine about
a month ago. This wine is supposed to sit for 2 years, but I was very
surprised by what a few months of aging had done, considering it had tasted
like rocket fuel. It had mellowed to a very nice slightly sweet white wine,
very drinkable right now, but I'll wait.
Darlene

"Allen McBroom" > wrote in message
. 4.21...
> Howdy........... It's been awhile since I posted, but I'm glad to
> see things still hopping around here.
> Back in the early summer, I made a gallon of wine using a gallon of
> Welch's Grape/Mango juice blend, a packet of Montrachet yeast, no water,
> and no sugar. I cleared it in the usual 28 day kit method of adding
> bentonite, and bottled after two rackings and about six weeks. Tasting
> the dregs left me with the idea I'd wasted a perfectly good packet of
> yeast; it was pretty nasty stuff.
> Finding no wine around the house that suited me tonight, I thought
> I'd see just how bad the grape/mango had become. Much to my surprise (a
> TREMENDOUS surprise), the wine I bottled in July was very nice! A bit
> like cranberry, no tannin strength at all, mostly dry, low acidity, the
> color of cranberries, and a very confused and pleasantly surprised
> amateur vintner. The body is lacking, but considering I paid $2/gallon
> for the juice, that's 50 cents a fifth. This is drinkable enough right
> now it could be served as a late afternoon wine to guests who are a bit
> adventurous, and not too rigid in their expectations.
> The other three bottles will rest for a few more months, and maybe
> I'll try one around Christmas.
> Again, glad to see all the activity in this NG, the lack of OT
> trash, and (finally) a decline in postings re the French (although, I
> must admit, I cheered quietly for many of those posts).
>
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