I think most people's problems with to much alcohol is that the wines are not made with enough fruit or grapes or watered down to much. You can mix water and alcohol together and all you'll taste is the alcohol. Add alcohol to a thick concentrate of any type juice and you'll taste alcohol some but you'll taste the concentrate more specially if it happens to be sweeter. So I'd say if you got plenty of body to your wine most any amount of alcohol won't bother it thats why port wines are good they normally got plenty of body to hold the alcohol. Just my rant on higher ABV. LOL can you tell I like mine alot stronger?