Tasting my first wine

[devnull]

I made a raspberry wine with berries from our garden, and though it's not been aging super long we had a little excess that didn't fit into the carboy for bulk aging. I put it in a bottle and let it hang out in the fridge over night. It had fermented to completely dry, and I like it that way but for my wife's preferences I did back sweeten it just a bit up to about 1.010

Being that we were drinking so soon I didn't bother with sorbate or anything. I did a simple syrup yesterday and drank today. It's still fairly sharp in flavor but the sweetening and cold temperature helped. I'm really excited to see what it will be like around Christmas!

I haven't posted a ton on the forum but I have been reading and lurking a lot, and just wanted to raise a glass in thanks for the help.

 

[devnull]

Btw the wine clarified nicely, it looks every bit as clear as something from the store. The picture looks less clear because it was so cold from the fridge when I shot it that it had condensation on it!

 

[Jovimaple]

Welcome to WMT!

My very first batch was raspberry from fresh berries. I made a few mistakes but I drank it all!

 

[BigDaveK]

Me too!
Very first wine was raspberry from the garden, already had enough jam. Very tasty following a recipe with 3.5 lbs fruit. Live and learn - delicious with 6+ lbs fruit!

 

[ChuckD]

Congrats on your first!

 

[DrGriz]

Congrats and welcome!

 

[sour_grapes]

 

[David Engel]

 

[Ericphotoart]

My first and only raspberry was done 09.23 and it's still aging. I drank one bottle and I was not very excited. It was too tarty for my taste. I backsweetened of course but I think berry wines will be much smoother after longer aging. I used 3 lbs of frozen berries per gallon. My strawberry wine was great but only after over 2 years of aging.

 

[Obbnw]

My first wine was from fresh blackberries after an unusually productive season.

The wife has told me to keep my grubby wine stained hands off her raspberries ; ).

Shortly after that I planted grapes...

 

[GSMChris]

Congratulations on your first wine!!!

 

[winechef]

2 months after fermentation is a little early, 4 to 6 months should be perfect, raspberry needs a little bit of powdered tannins usually to balance the tart for mouth feel. glycerin definitely helps. most of my fruit wines never taste like the fruit if don't back sweeten a little.

your wine clarity and color look good. if you can keep the fruit cold during fermentation and extend it can extract a little more color. but what you have looks great