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Peach Wine Help

I am currently making a 5-6 gallon batch of Peach Wine. I racked it for the first time yesterday (3 weeks or so after being moved from the primary into the carboy). The wine looks fine, it is starting to clear, more sediment is dropping out, and all is well there -- BUT -- I am very concerned about the flavor of this wine. I can hardly smell any peach aromas coming from the wine. I have heard that Peach wine does not retain flavor well through the fermentation process. Is this true? If this is the case, is there anything that I can do at this point in time in the process to boost the flavor? Any help, as always, would be greatly appreciated.

Reply to
John Fouts
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Your wine is very young yet; I would give it time to clear and mature. Darlene

Reply to
Dar V

You can purchase Peach Flovoring from your Home Brew Shop... Just add one bottle (2 oz) if it is Cellar Pro brand. Other brands may be different.

Later, A.J.

Reply to
A. J. Rawls

Our batch of peach wine had no peach flavor whatsoever. However, it matured into a fine dry white with a delicate peach aroma. It also packs a punch thanks to a little yeast encouragement. I say give it time to develop before goosing it up w/ peach flavorings. We were in this position too, but by the time we finished arguing about adding it, the resulting product was great with out it & the flavoring is still unopened in the drawer.

Reply to
bobdrob

Easy Answer:

Peach wine doesn't taste like peaches, it tastes like peach wine.

Let it age and it will be a good light white wine with a hint of peach nose.

-b

Reply to
Bret

Grape wine does not taste are smell like grapes and most other fruit will work the same way. Is it fairly dry? Sometimes if you add some sugar the fruit character will come back out. We associate peaches with sweetness and without some sweetness the peach is just not there.

I will not say that I have tried this but if you decide to sweeten it a bit you might get some peachs packed in heavy sugar and use the juice from the can so sweeten with. Do not try to press the peaches, us only the juice. Do not do this and bottle right away, you will get floaters. You will need to let it clear again.

Remember that if you are going to sweeten, you must stabilize the wine. Either filter with a fine filter that is designed to remove yeast (very expensive) or use sorbate.

Ray

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Ray Calvert

i made 5gallons of peach back in early june from peaches i picked and after it was done in the secondary it smelled bad and tasted bad. i drank a glass tonight after botteling and it has improved greatly. best regards,lucas

Reply to
ds549

Give peach wine a lot of time. Don't add flavor. If the wine is a little sweet it will taste great after a year and a half. We made 30 gallons of peach wine five years ago. It tasted awful for the first year. It is GREAT now. it's almost gone and we want to make another batch in the next year or so.

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Andie Z

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