bama2112
Active Member
Hello all! Just started wine making last week. Been lurking here for some time learning lots of stuff! My first wine is a fresh strawberries one. Should be moving it to my secondary tomorrow. Wish me luck!
I live in the Houston area. Came across what I thought at the time to be wonderfully ripe gobs of muscadines. I grew up in Alabama on wild muscadines, but these were a bit different though. Did some research on the net and I believe them to be wild Mustang grapes. So I picked 6 pounds and just got finished getting them into my primary. They were very ripe. I tried one and there wasn't to much sweetness to them like a muscadine. And they don't smell like a fruit in any way. Strange, but they almost smell like a veggie mashed up in the primary! Very acidic too! My question is, could these be something all together different, and I really shouldn't be making wine out of them? Just trying to be cautious here.
I've included some pics to see if anyone knows about them. They fit the full description posted on the net, so I'm 98% confident they are Mustangs!
I live in the Houston area. Came across what I thought at the time to be wonderfully ripe gobs of muscadines. I grew up in Alabama on wild muscadines, but these were a bit different though. Did some research on the net and I believe them to be wild Mustang grapes. So I picked 6 pounds and just got finished getting them into my primary. They were very ripe. I tried one and there wasn't to much sweetness to them like a muscadine. And they don't smell like a fruit in any way. Strange, but they almost smell like a veggie mashed up in the primary! Very acidic too! My question is, could these be something all together different, and I really shouldn't be making wine out of them? Just trying to be cautious here.
I've included some pics to see if anyone knows about them. They fit the full description posted on the net, so I'm 98% confident they are Mustangs!