How long is homemade wine good for?

Question

Making our own! How long can we keep it around?

Answer 1

The longer life wines are the balanced wines that taste good and have a balanced pH level. The good tasting batches don't last long because you find occasions to drink them quickly, so storing may not be as much a problem as you think. The site referenced below says that up to two years can be ok for a nicely balanced homemade wine.

The shelf life of a homemade wine will depend on the ingredients and pH level. You should experiment, because no one can tell you this with precision unless they know what the ingredients are and how much of each ingredient is used. It can be a fun trial and error thing you can do, until you finally get it right.

Flavor can even be affected by the temperature of the room the bottle is kept in; if the temperature is kept constant it stays stable and nice, but if it varies by more than a few degrees, the wine ingredients can become volatile (break down too easily for longer term storage). If the bottle is filled all the way to the cork or not, if the bottle is stored in a darker place, on its side and rotated on a regular basis, or badly kept, unrotated, warming gently while upright in the sun...

Don't think you'll notice the flavors that much to rotate and otherwise "babysit" your wines? Well, try this- when you sip your wines for tasting, open your mouth for a second to let the air hit it, then let it coat your mouth and swallow. Then breathe out your nose. As you exhale, you will smell/taste the flavors closely. (Your nose actually helps you taste flavors on your tongue and you can even smell as you exhale through your nose.)

In the past when I have made wines, there has been settling of the ingredients at the bottom. Some batches tasted better after shaking it around to mix it. Some were ruined that way. The best wines have little to no sediment as the sediment adds volatility that can change flavors in time.

Answer 2

Is Homemade Wine Good

Answer 3

Taste it. That is an awfully long tome for fermentation to be going on. If the taste is sour, you contaminated the wine with bacteria, which can ferment more sugar than yeast can. Another indication is a ring around the neck of the carboy. Wine that tastes like vinegar will never improve. Toss it and really work on sanitizing the container it was in.

Answer 4

Provided you used adequate sanitization during the whole process, it will last every bit as long as commercial wine...including the whole "getting better with age."

If you don't know if you've sterilized everything "just so" then you haven't and are at risk of spoilage (though not guaranteed). At that point, it's anybody's guess when it will go bad...during fermentation, in a couple weeks, months...

Answer 5

I have made wines 15 years, and from my experience, they can only get better in time.

If the wine you make, gets worse, there`s something that went wrong in the making process, usually it is some bacteria.

I have no education for making wines,but this is my experience, because I drink and test what I make.

Answer 6

Depends on what it is made out of. Very basically the more tannin the longer it will last. Get a book called the first steps of wine making by CJJ Berry

Answer 7

4 to 6 months. I'm at 5 and have two bottles left. I'll have to work on that.

Answer 8

2 weeks

Answer 9

if it's made properly and filtered with the right elements, stored to the recommendations.. and sealed with the correct tools. you can even age it.

but you must have the right stuff.

www.hoptech.com

Answer 10

How long is it good for? Until the bottles are GONE ! ! !