1997 White Bordeaux
December 2007 – This was my second kit wine. I liked a lot better than the Vieux Chateau Du Roi I did the previous year.
I was in wine making withdrawal, didn’t want to wait until the fall (when I made Carmine), so I made the Canned Cabernet and this one.
Ingredients
| Kit | WineArt White Bordeaux Kit |
| Sugar | 6 cups |
| Yeast | Lalvin EC-1118 |
Method
| Started kit, following directions. | 04/26/1997 SG 1.084 |
| Racked, added bentonite. | 05/05/1997 SG 1.016 |
| Bottled | 09/11/1997 SG 0.990 |
Notes
| Yield | 29 bottles |
| Alcohol | 12.8% |
| Afterthoughts | This was my second kit — I was really impressed with it. Not that it was a great wine, but it was a good-valued table wine. Definitely better than anything in that class, and certainly cheaper to make. [Not that price is my motivating factor here!] |
| I don’t recall much about this kit. I vaguely recall racking it 10 days or so after starting, then just ignoring it for months as I was busy with other stuff. It came out fairly good, given the overall quality of the kit. If it had not, I’d have probably given up on wine making. | |
| October 2018 | While moving from my old site to this one, I spotted that I added 6 cups of sugar to the kit. The original SG must have been horribly low. The kits in the 90’s were not the best, especially in comparison to today’s kits. |