Dave,
I've made wine from Welch's frozen grape juice, as well as other frozen
juices. Your wine is very young, and probably doesn't taste as good as it
could. I've found that waiting over a year to a year & 1/2 greatly improves
the taste. I'm not sure about the bitterness and where that came from.
Usually the wines have a strong "alcoholic kick" to them when they're that
young. I know where you're coming from. I've been debating which one of my
wines I was going to give to a couple of friends who have given me a lot
empty wine bottles. I decided I needed to try a bottle first to make sure I
was happy about how the wine had come out.
Darlene

"Dave Allyn" > wrote in message
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> Okay, made a welches concord juice wine (one Gal) added yeast
> 9-21-03. Sat in primary for a coulpe weeks, then moved to secondary.
> racked once in secondary and bottled a couple days ago. had a bit
> left over that wouldn't go into a bottle (okay, went into bottle, but
> had no way to cork it as the bottle was too small for the corks) put
> some foil with a rubber band to seal it (all I had at the time)
>
> Tried some of the wine tonight from the "extra" bottle. it is really
> bitter. is this just an aging thing? here are the numbers I have:
>
> Init S.G: 1.091 on 9-21-03
> to secondary: 1.007 on 9-28-03
> racked it at 0.990 on 10-17-03
> bottled at 0.990 on 12-15-03
>
> pH was failrly consistant at about 3.5-3.6 (a bit high I know)
>
> didn't take any other readings.
>
> If it is just a issue of the foil/rubber band and isn't going to cause
> any problems, then great. I can take this wine to christmas. I only
> have three bottles that are properly corked, so I don't want to open
> one "jus to see", yet I don't want to give away stuff that is junk.
>
> any ideas?
>
> thanks in advance...
>
>
> email: dallyn_spam at yahoo dot com
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