Photo of my peach wine, back flavored and sweetened

[Sammyk]

We did the 5th racking today and back flavored with fresh peaches I simmered down and sweetened with simple sugar to 1.010. I hope it is the last racking. LOL
We wound up with 5 gallons from 50 pounds of fresh peaches.

pH was 3.6. Is that good?

 

[Sammyk]

It still needs to clear but it had a decent peach flavor. I plan to keep an eye on it to see if more lees fall and then age for 6 months and then decide if it needs to age longer.

 

[Boatboy24]

Looks good. Are you using any clearing agents, or just letting nature take its course?

 

[olusteebus]

We don't want no stinkin photos.


we want the wine.


Nice looking, sounds real good.

 

[roadwarriorsvt]

I think you've got a few rackings in your future!

 

[keena]

I just did a peach wine as well that's at 3rd rack and mines a much lighter color. But I'm thinking you will have a couple more racks in the future buddy

 

[Sammyk]

Yes it is quite dark but I think it was from simmering the fresh peaches for the fruit pack way too long. They did not burn but their syrup got very dark.

I am sure it will lighten up in future rackings though

 

[saramc]

Was the wine clear before you backsweetened? Can you put some in a wineglass and take a picture and post that....just curious?

 

[GreginND]

My guess is that cooking the peaches developed the pectin causing haze.

 

[Sammyk]

Yes it was very clear. It is in the crawl space now and not easy to get too. But I will do another photo when I check it next month if you like. We had to put it there because it is too warm in the house....

FWIW it fermented to .99 in a few days (have to look at notes - in the other room) and it was in the upper 80's during fermentation. And it tasted decent yesterday with a decent peach flavor that I am quite sure the peach flavor will come up as it ages.

I did use pectin enzyme as the frozen peaches thawed in the fridge

 

[UBB]

My peach is also under the stairs. But I was prompted to take a quick pic of these two before they get put away under the stairs for a summer nap. Strawberry (Vitners Harvest Cans) on the left and Plum (from my orchard) on the right.

 

[seth8530]

Wow, that is impressively dark for peach. My peach wine has a yellow almost greenish colour to it.

 

[Deezil]

Strawberry (Vitners Harvest Cans) on the left and Plum (from my orchard) on the right.

Wow, that is impressively dark for peach. My peach wine has a yellow almost greenish colour to it.

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[seth8530]

Strawberry (Vitners Harvest Cans) on the left and Plum (from my orchard) on the right.[/I]
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Wow, that is impressively dark for peach. My peach wine has a yellow almost greenish colour to it.

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