Strange tasting WOW

[simonkidder]

So I've made my first WOW using moleys recipe guide. Now i have bottled in old wine bottles with half a crushed CT in. Now I opened a bottle and drank 3/4 the bottle and left a glass worth in the fridge for about 3 or 4 days. Now I've just poured a glass and it's got a strange taste with it I just can't put my finger on. Any suggestions

 

[periolus]

Does it taste of geraniums?

 

[Moley]

No, he implied that the first 3/4 of the bottle was fine, but the last 1/4 has been put back in the fridge and left for a few days (strange behaviour if you ask me), and it's just that last glass which tastes odd.

Probably just oxidised, wine doesn't keep once it's been opened.

 

[simonkidder]

Don't know what they taste like. It tastes tangy like the CT has left some taste or something I'm not sure.

 

[periolus]

I don't think Campden Tablets leave a taste behind, but 1 crushed tablet is enough for 5 gallons. Did you add citric acid, or any other soluble acid to the wine?

If you can post the recipe and the method then maybe it will throw something up.

 

[sheffieldlad]

If you can post the recipe and the method then maybe it will throw something up.

If he keeps drinknig that wine maybe he'll throw something up? :sick:
Joke....

 

[Thisledome]

left a glass worth in the fridge for about 3 or 4 days.

I agree with Moley strange behaviour.

 

[simonkidder]

heres the recipe i used in a 20ltr water bottle

4 ltr orange juice
4 ltr white grape juce.
tanning,
glcerine
wine yeat compound
nutrient
think it was about 900g sugar

left to ferment out for about 3 weeks, then racked off and left for a week or so then used finings. I just racked off a taster bottle into a 750ml wine bottle with 1 ct in it. im thinking i should have only used half a ct in the bottle.

 

[periolus]

I have only made WoW twice, but when I did it, I used potassium sorbate to stop fermentation completely and I added 1/2 a campden tablet just before I did this. That was in the 1G demijohn.

I doesn't sound like the tablet would be responsible for the funny taste, as the first part of the bottle was fine. Oxidation could well be to blame. The taste and smell you get with wine that is beginning to oxidise is that of freshly chopped tomatoes. If you are getting (or were getting) hints of that, then you have found your problem.

Solution? Drink the whole damn bottle next time!

 

[simonkidder]

sorry i forgot to put that i did add potassium sorbate after i had racked it and before i added the finings. yeah ill have to just drink the lot the next time.

 

[tonyhibbett]

Quite simple. You can open a bottle of wine and drink the rest the next day. After that it goes downhill rapidly due to exposure to oxygen. Nothing unusual.

 

[Moley]

I just racked off a taster bottle into a 750ml wine bottle with 1 ct in it. im thinking i should have only used half a ct in the bottle.

If you're doing 4 gallons you add 4 CTs when racking and before 2 tsps of sorbate.

You don't add any more CT when bottling.

Even if you did, it would be one sixth of a CT to the bottle, and then you should leave it for at least a couple of weeks (and preferably much longer) before drinking.