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...


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