Homemade Wine Making Maturing Process

Would you believe there are people who are so anxious to know when or how long a wine matures whereas the truth is they just want to have a good drink of it? Actually, it is surprising that the number of people will not simply believe it that wines improve with age. They set about making wines possessed of urgency which should not exist and an impatience that is hard to believe. People really believe that wine can be made, matured and drunk in six or seven weeks. Of course with luck, you might get fermentation done and your wines clear and bottled in that time, but truly they can't be drinkable even so young.

I understand you will be itching to get your teeth into these wines and I can't blame you for that because you are not alone; winemakers are eager to sample the latest batch. For some reason, keeping the wine at least a year before you manage to drink it is a waste of time, especially when you had a taste of it when siphoning it into bottles. However, for your own sake, at bottling time, put two bottles of you homemade wine in the attic or some other place where they cannot be retrieved easily. Those two bottles of each lot made will soon amount up to a nice little stock.

A good secret to building up a stock is to make numerous batches at the same time. When a jar is emptied at the bottling stage, start again with new lot. In this way, you will always have a few gallons fermenting, several dozen bottles for use on hand and a dozen or so making a nice reserve. When the first two bottles are put away for a year or two you may sample them. They will have become such wonderful wines in that time that your lesson will have been well learned.

It's also definitely a good idea to keep some of your wine for five years. For at five years it's better than four and at three years it's better than two. Also you can be rest assured that these times have been proven by many winemakers and trusted for years. So, are you ready to keep your wine long enough to have a better taste?

Lastly, wines should be stored at a temperature that remains constant throughout the year. Differing changes in temperature should be avoided, so if you can store your wines on a stone floor or in a cupboard which has a stone floor, that's best; if you can't do this, store your wines where you can and hope for the best.