Wine Smells to New Wine Maker

I love the smell of fermenting wine.

This brings to my mind the time I took my daughter to Hawaii. We were on Maui driving the road to Hana when it suddenly smelled like we were driving through a winery. It turns out that mangos were falling off the trees, being crushed by tires of the passing cars, and fermenting on the road. Mango wine!

No way to say unless you are more desciptive of the actual smell. New wine smells good to me too. If it smelled like rotten eggs or pungent in general, rack it again wirth some splashing. If it smells bad that is not normal. A shiraz is usually oaked, the wine will have coarse taste when young but should not have a bad smell. Long aging on a red is never bad, I don't see a need for sorbate in a dry wine either.

Joe

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Nope. It wasn't sulfurous at all....it was definitely yeast and young grape, tinny perhaps might describe it a little too. The taste was very fresh although I had to keep my teeth together so the oak and benonite didn't coat my tongue ;^). Thx.

New wine does smell like new wine. No getting around that. To long time wine makers it smells good. To others it may smell bad. BUT, I never bottle untill the wine is absolutely clear, tastes good, and smells good. If it smells or tastes yeasty then it probably is yeasty and you do not want old yeast rotting in you wine bottle. Leave it in the secondary untill it is ready to bottle. For me that is usually for 6 months to 1 year. But sometimes I will force clear and bottle a younger wine.

Ray

Tinny could be a little too much sulfite, some say it tastes metallic. I think all of this will round out given a little time as Ray mentioned.

Joe