Homemade Wine - tastes Like Sherry - help!!!!!

wills72

Hi

I've made some homemade red wine, and it tastes like sherry - which would be ok if I liked sherry!

I have 12 bottles of it! Any ideas of how I could add something to it to make it taste better and less sweet.

Cheers

Lucina_2

Hi,

Was the wine from a kit or made from scratch with fruit?

Not knowing I would probably keep it anyway and then make a new batch of a very dry red and try mixing the two.

I've done that in the past with white wines if they ended up too sweet and it was fine.

Hope it helps.

tiff

Did you make it with real fruit? If so it will need to mature for over a year or so. You could try blending it with another wine like Lucina said.

wills72

Hi

I made it from grape juice. Think I must have put in too much sugar.

Thanks for all your help.

Lillibet_2

Make 120 trifles with it?:rotfl:

Seakay

You could make sherry vinegar with it - home made wine vinegar is great and you can use it for all sorts that you would usually use something cheaper for eg pickled onions.

Wine Vinegar

Use any cleared, matured wine that is ready for bottling. Dilute each pint of wine with half a pint of water and half a pint of commercial vinegar (I use white distilled because I can get it quite cheap)
Half fill a sterilised demi john or other narrow-necked GLASS container (wine bottles will do) and plug the top(s) with cotton wool.
Place somewhre warm and leave for at least eight weeks. The wine/vinegar becomes hazy and a wrinkled skin forms on the surface. When the process is complete the vinegar starts to clear.
Siphon into sterilised bottles, seal with corks or use vinegar proof screw caps, vinegar is ready in 3 months. (Don't store near wine in case of contamination).

I make mine in a two gallon demi john using 3 bottles of homemade wine at a time and ending up with one gallon of vinegar which I store in a plastic 5 litre container which previously held white vinegar.
I use it for herb vinegars, chutnies, pickles etc.

budget_counsellor_shaz

wills72 wrote: »

Hi

I've made some homemade red wine, and it tastes like sherry - which would be ok if I liked sherry!

I have 12 bottles of it! Any ideas of how I could add something to it to make it taste better and less sweet.

Cheers

Hi Wills,

My family have made homemade wine for many years. Their suggestion is that you make a mild flavoured dry red wine and then mix them together. A kit would be fine. Altenatively add some more yeast and a little bit of sugar and try to get it to referment again..... but be careful the alcohol content will be even higher:rotfl:

My husband sometimes adds a large bottle of ribena to his wine if the flavour needs changing. Its amazing what you can make wine out of. They've just made sloe wine, the sloe gin is great but there have been so many sloes about they thought they'd try that.:beer:

Hope it turns out ok.

Shaz

tiff

Just wondering if you use a hydrometer when you make your wine? If you dont it might be worth getting one and reading up on how to use them. That way you can start off with the right amount of sugar and end up with the dryness/sweetness that you prefer. You can also measure the amount of alcohol by your original and final readings.

Austin_Allegro

You could try making spritzers out of it with soda water. I've done that on a batch of homemade wine which was way too dry on its own.

Fivenations

It sounds like your wine has oxidised due to exposure to the air - caused by bad storage or faulty stopper. Not really much you can do. I think, as any wine you add it too will taste the same, though dont hold me to that, so why not label it as sherry and give it away?

tiff

Austin_Allegro wrote: »

You could try making spritzers out of it with soda water. I've done that on a batch of homemade wine which was way too dry on its own.

You can always sweeten it when fermenting has finished or add a non fermentable sugar such as canderel etc.