> That works out at £6 - £8 per bottle. Isn't that a tad expensive
> for home made wine?

Ah I presumed you had made a 23 litre/5 gal imp kit -- make 30 bottles
just over £1/bottle -- say £1.50 when you have bottled and labelled it!
if you continue making wine I really do suggest that you upgrade to making
23 litre lots. That way you can drink some and slowly build up a reserve of
older wine. Older ( i.e. more mature) wine tastes amazingly better however
you have made it from grapes, dandelions or apples!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

> But why does it taste so strange and would my not using boiling
> water at the beginning cause any problems?
There is no need to used boiling or more correctly cooled boiled water,

To be blunt it is a fairly basic kit ( if your original link was correct it
is a " GM Standard Wine kit) -- and you cannot expect it to compare with a
commercially produced wine. However if you were prepared to bottle it and
then keep the 6 bottles for a couple of months , even with an inexpensive
kit wine, you would be surprised on how much better it tastes. However enjoy
you new wine for what it is -- your own wine made by yourself! Excellent!

Forgive me but it sounds as though you have jumped into it just to produce
some cheap wine for Christmas. If you had made it last summer and kept it
until now it would be quite drinkable. I have been making wine for some 30+
years now and my first attempts were pretty basic. I do remember that my
first Blackberry wine was drunk at about 2 months old. Now I would keep it
for 2 years. My Strawberry I drink quite young at about 1 year old. My
fortified elderberry at any time over 5 years!


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