I'm still new at winemaking, but my worst story to date is when I tried
my first 'non-kit' attempt. I used Welch's Concord frozen, made up a
gallon on a website recipe.

Totally unaware of measuring (or tasting, boy, I've learned a lot in 18
months!), I did the recipe and bottled. I let it sit for a few months
and gave a bottle to my new brother-in-law (who loves dry reds and lives
several states away), even prior to ME tasting it. He tried it a few
days later, he never mentioned it to me, in fact has never asked for any
of my other wines (approaching 500 bottles soon).

It turned out the must never fermented, and I'd bottled grape juice!


I was too embarrassed to ever mention it to him, either. blush.

--
DAve

p.s. I guess that leaves more good wine for me, though I was trying to
make an impression. sigh.

Bob Becker wrote:
> I was just wondering...
> Does anyone have any wine making horror stories?
> Really awful batches? Major mistakes?
> Might be kind of fun to hear about them...
>
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