Congratulations on the Pomegranate. No you can not do better than pleasing
your sweety. But if you like the wine, my suggestion is not to plan to age
it. Go ahead and drink it now. Your pH is a bit hight and it is not going
to keep indefinately. It maight keep for 2 or 3 years or it might start
decining after only 1 year. I am not criticising, just suggesting that you
drink it while you enjoy it.

Ray

"Casey Wilson" > wrote in message
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> I now have eighteen 375 mil and four 185ml bottles of Mojave Spirits
> (my brand) Pomegranate Wine. The final numbers going into the bottles a
> SG:1.011
> pH: 3.67
> TA: 0.7%
> Maybe by the next batch I'll have a kit and know how to measure SO.
> The final product came out just on the sweet side of dry or the dry
> side of sweet depending on your perspective. For those who might not have
> read the first couple of reports I put out, I started with 2.5 gallons of
> unadulterated, i.e. straight pomegranate juice. Unlike the published
> recipes that all seem to want to make "white concord grape" or "Sun Maid
> Raisin" wine flavored with pomegranate juice. I hope that doesn't offend
> too many folks.
> My sweetie-pie said, "I like it." Can't get it better than that for me.
> It finished up with a nice tangy pomegranate flavor.
> Instead of using shrink-on caps, I used red dipping wax I bought from
> Midwest. About half-way through I figure out how to get a nice cap over
> the top. I was hoping for something resembling the wax cap on Maker's Mark
> but the wax wouldn't stick to the glass bottle. Anybody know the secret to
> that?
> I hope to put it away for at least three months before I open a bottle.
> Thanks for all the help you guys have given me.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Casey Wilson
> Freelance Writer
> and Photographer
>
> [... and now on to the Australian Shiraz.]
>