What to do with my rocket fuel...

One option would be to actually add some vodka and some sugar and make kinda sorta a liquor out of it. The added sugar may bring out more of the peach flavor. Make sure you get the alcohol content high enough so that the sugar will not ferment. It might make a pretty good liquid panty hose remover for your lady friends. ha ha.

Your description fits a very young wine, and by definition, the wine is not ready to bottle.

Yes indeed, your wine will mellow out and improve considerably. Please consider bulk aging the wine for about a year and then bottle age for another year. You will be surprised how much improvement a year or two of aging makes.

Good luck Harry, lum

Was it by chance one of the Loblaws/Superstore Peach Chardonnay type fruit wines? I am guessing it is either that or one of the other low alcohol wines.

If it is low alcohol, just let it age 60 days or so, try one, if still lousy, wait another couple of months.

The wine kit was probably the cheapest type of kit you can

He ain't going to wait for a year --- but if he can manage a month it will still be a lot better

That describes a number of my wines when they are young, but if you can hold off, the wine will age and taste much better. Darlene

One thing I wish people would do in posts like this is....

Name names!

Which kit was it? We're all knowledgeable enough to realize that its not only the kit but how its made that determines its ultimate quality, but if the same names are named over and over, you start to get a good picture of the expected quality of the kit, whether good or bad.

Brian

Thanks for the responses, everyone. I realise that the expensive kits (of which I have 2 aging right now) will age gracefully, I was more worried that because this is the cheapest of the cheap kits (Superstore special) that it wouldn't take to aging.

If I do choose to age it for 6+ months, do I need to add anything?

Thanks!

You should add a half campden tablet per gal when you rack it. It will probably mellow out but if it remains low flavored rocket fuel after a few months you might consider adding sorbate and sulfite to stabilize and then add some peach concentrate to flavor and sweeten it. This will probably turn it into a very nice picnic wine. Sort of a wine cooler without the carbonation.

Ray

What was the final Alcohol measurement once fermentation completed?