2:18 a.m. - 2010-05-04
How Homemade Wine Improves With Age?
I understand people are anxious to know how long a wine matures, whereas the truth is they just want to have a good drink of it. A number of people will not simply believe that wines improve with age. Going about the process of making wines with urgency should not exist and impatience like that is hard to believe. People truly believe that wine can be made, matured and drunk in six or seven weeks- that's way too young. You might barely get fermentation done and your wines clear and bottled in that time, but truly they can't be drinkable.
Yes indeed I know it very well that you will be itching to get your teeth into that wine and you cannot blame yourself for that. Many winemakers desire to taste the latest batch to be bottled. Also, keeping the homemade wine at least a year before you manage to drink it seems to be a waste of time, especially after when you had a taste of it when siphoning it. So, remember this for your own sake. When it's bottling time, put two bottles or more in the basement or someplace where they can't be reached easily. Later on, those two bottles of each batch made will soon amount up to a nice little collection.
A good secret to building up a stock is to make numerous batches at the same time. When a jar is emptied at the bottling stage, start again with new lot. In this way, you will always have a few gallons fermenting, several dozen bottles for use on hand and a dozen or so making a nice reserve. When the first two bottles are put away for a year or two you may sample them. They will have become such wonderful wines in that time that your lesson will have been well learned.
Another good idea is to keep some of the wine for at least five years. After five years it is better than age four and three years is better than age two. These maturing times have been trusted by expert winemakers. The question is, are you ready to keep your wines long enough to have a magnificent taste?
Lastly, wines should be stored at a temperature that remains constant throughout the year. Differing changes in temperature should be avoided, so if you can store your wines on a stone floor or in a cupboard which has a stone floor, that's best; if you can't do this, store your wines where you can and hope for the best.
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