First real sample of guava - mind blown

[Stressbaby]

My first batch of wine ever was a 2gal batch, a blend of strawberry guava, lemon guava, and dwarf regular guava which I grew in my greenhouse. I started it almost exactly a year ago. The recipe is gone because I stored it as a link and now it's a 404. I do remember that I boiled the guava; my notes say I fermented to 0.995, cleared it with bentonite, and backsweetened with 50g sugar/gallon.

I sampled this 3 months ago, knowing it was a little early, and it was just OK...not that sweet and it had a bit of that funny guava smell...if you have eaten many regular guavas, you know what I mean. Now, that smell is gone and this wine is fantastic! The guava has really come forward and there is some caramel and vanilla as well. The change is unbelievable.

Laugh if you want but I've never really had a non-grape wine, and certainly not one I've made. I'm hooked like never before. My sincere thanks to everyone on this forum!

PS: My All-In-One wine pump arrived today...I'm not sure it can get much better!

 

[oldwhiskers]

Hey congratulations!!!! It's always nice to have a surprise like that. Most say that the sweet spot comes after 6 months to a year on most wines, some do take longer. Mine seem to really get better at about six months and all of mine are non-grape.

 

[seth8530]

Congrats on the good wine. It is amazing what a few months can do.