I agree with Trevor completely. There is time to bulk age after you have
your stock up. Enjoy what you have now. Heck, you might find that you
prefer some of it young. You do not have to like the same styles others
like.

In fact, treat it as a learning experience. When you make a new type of
wine, start drinking a bottle a month when it is first drinkable. Keep
notes. It will help you to better enjoy future batches.

Ray

"Pinky" > wrote in message
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> I think that you are showing admirable restraint!
> Many years ago (too many) when I made my first gallon of home made wine it
> didn't survive long enough to age more than a week! --- and it was
> wonderful stuff! I would hope that, if you haven't already tried your
first
> kit wine, you open a bottle now and enjoy the efforts of you labours and
> indeed your first batch as a whole should now be enjoyed with perhaps
saving
> just a couple to age for a year and to sample them then.
> In my early days I made a lot of "country" wines as well and the kit wines
> were pretty basic stuff. They were bottled and corked using a fiendish
> mallet to hammer the cork through a tube and I stuck on a tacky piece of
> luggage label to identify it.
> Doesn't bear comparison with my finished product nowadays but then I
didn't
> have a pc in those days and shrink wrap hadn't been invented ( neither
had
> floor corkers!)
> So, although I am in total agreement with the process of bulk aging and
> bottle aging, I would recommend that you enjoy your first wines now ---
and
> get some more on the go to build up your stock.
>
> And a belated "Welcome to the club"!!!!!
>
>
> --
> Trevor A Panther
> In South Yorkshire, England
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> "rob davis" > wrote in message
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> > I started making wine kits back in October and have bottled three
> > batches thus far. I also have three others on the go, in various
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