Other When do you start aging ?

[GaDawg]

When talking about this wine is 12 mo. old. When do you start the clock? Is it from the time you pitch the yeast? When fermentation is complete ? When racking and clearing is done? When it has finished bulk aging? Or when it is bodied?

 

[Boatboy24]

From the time I pitch.

 

[JohnT]

The vintage of a wine is determined by when the grapes are picked.

 

[jsiddall]

It would be nice if kits told you when the grapes were picked. Heck, I would even be happy just knowing which varietal were picked!

I am with @Boatboy24. I describe age from adding yeast to take out all the variables.

 

[ffemt128]

I generally go with when yeast is pitched. I haven't done a kit in ages but I have 110 lbs of elderberries in the freezer from 2014. Those when made will be a 2015 wine not a 2014 wine.

I have heard generally it would be the vintage in which grapes were picked as well which is usually the same year a yeast is picked.

 

[Julie]

When I pitch the yeast.

 

[Greydog]

When I bottle. I make my own labels with a little app called Label Factory Deluxe 4 and print them out. Then when I bottle I annotate the date on the corner with a ball point pen. I could add the date before I print them but I like to add a little something personal on there.

 

[Runningwolf]

Right after marriage.

 

[Thig]

I was waiting for that answer. Lol

 

[roger80465]

Right after marriage.

Love it! Love it again since my first response was too short, apparently.