Last night we bottled the two batches of juice that I bought from Conzatti’s. The Pinot Grigio came out sweet for some reason. It doesn’t taste bad, but it doesn’t taste like Pinot Grigio, either. The Valpolicella came out ok. I’ll know more about that once it ages for a bit. It’s hard to tell how the red wines will taste until they have aged for a while.
I’m thinking about upgrading our red wine kits in 2010. I found some kits which also contain the grape skins. Grape skins are an essential part of the red wine-making process–they give the wines the tannin they need. In my opinion, our red wines are always a little lacking, so this is probably worth a consideration for next year. I have already ordered all of the wine kits I’m going to do this year, so that’s why I’m putting it off until then.
When I was ordering wine supplies last week, I found a nifty bottle washer that cut my “sanitizing the bottles” chore down into nothing. Well worth the money.