when good wines gone bad

[joeswine]

this year my marshmallow port took first place in Hammonton I wanted to show you my plan,,,PHASE!

 

[joeswine]

PHASE 2>..........stay the course....

 

[joeswine]

PHASE 3.............................. this has now taken the place of my coffee port of which I've took 5 best of shows, this is the first for this one. And it's warm and tasty.

 

[joeswine]

save the best for last

 

[sour_grapes]

Congrats, Joe!

 

[WineenthusiastLover]

Here you can find informations about "Does wine go bad"

https://topwinecooler.com/does-wine-go-bad-wine-saver-buying-guide/

 

[joeswine]

Are you for real?

 

[cmason1957]

Are you for real?

I am hoping he just misunderstood the title of this topic.

 

[WineenthusiastLover]

Sorry, if my post was off the topic. Yes cmason - I misunderstood the title of this topic.

 

[Johnd]

Pretty easy to misunderstand, lots of spelling errors and grammatical mistakes in this thread. I thought the response to be rather comical......

 

[joeswine]

I take it you read it no matter how I'll composed it is.
Maybe the others who have also read this thread have gotten a little more out of it than youself. Just maybe.

 

[Johnd]

LOL!! Not so much....

 

[Lwrightjs]

So I've got 2 one gallon kits that I'd like to fix. I tweaked them in the beginning according to the "tweaking cheap kits" thread, but because they were 1 gallon, I didn't reduce the volume and they seem to be lacking texture and a little body. They've been in secondary for a few weeks now. OG was 1.090 (but the currants in primary probably bumped up the ABV, which is fine).
The kits were Cabernet and Merlot. Is there anything I can do now to help increase the body and texture? I added a quarter cup of med toast french oak chips to each last night.
They have both have a nice fruity taste, but a little thin and not very complex.

Oh, and my original tweak was a quarter cup of currants in each (during primary) , with 6 Oz of Blackberries in the merlot.

 

[joeswine]

The base is what it is, I've made 2 kits straight up and then blended them with different bases.
What you can work with is a good Grady glycerin .
What was your plan for the kits?

 

[Lwrightjs]

My plan was to create a decent table wine while the good stuff ages.
I just like wine to taste good.

I have thought about blending these but I wanted to see if I could salvage them separately first.

What do you mean by glycerin?

 

[joeswine]

Text wine making a glicerin, it's used as a thicking agent, I've used it in the passed,it does work

 

[Johnd]

What do you mean by glycerin?

Here’s a link to the product:

https://eckraus.com/glycerine-99-5/

 

[Lwrightjs]

What about adding more currants? Will that add more texture?

 

[joeswine]

Some, it's all the base wine, try simmering currents in wine to start with.that will add structure.1cup of current 2 cups of wine.

 

[Lwrightjs]

That many currants for a 1 gallon kit?