Greetings,
I just subscribed to this group and have some questions. I am in the midst of making my first batch of wine using a kit but am interested in making fruit wine and am currently reading the book "The Joy of Home Winemaking" by Terry Garey.
I notice most of her recipes call for ageing of a minimum of 6 months to a year. The (grape) wine (White Zinfandel) I am making now seems to require about a couple of months from start to drink. I would like to know what happens during this ageing process and can it be shortened for non-grape fruit wines?
I would like to make several different kinds of fruit wines (raspberry, peach, apple, raisin, etc...) a gallon at a time (say a month apart) but if it takes 6 months to drink one I am reluctant to start doing different ones till I taste the first one completed.
Thanks, Mike