Need Information: First Kit Tastes Like Buttery Alcohol

So my first kit is a Vintner's Reserve Riesling. I am starting to bottle it so this is my first taste test. It smells really wonderfull, lots of sweet fruit notes. The taste however leaves something lacking. It takes like butter mixed with vodka. I did add an additional tablespoon of metabisulphite so that the wine would hang around longer after ageing. It came in with an FG of .992.

So will the butter taste age out or did I just bottle 30 bottles of paint thinner?

It will get better with age.

cvstrat said:

It will get better with age.

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Awesome. Guess I'll let them hang around for 6 months or so before trying the next bottle. Was it the metabisulphite that I added that made it that bad early?

Once it ages for a few months, the flavor will start to pop out at you and you'll appreciate those buttery notes. Let it age.

A tablespoon seems a bit much. A quarter teaspoon per gallon is enough.

DoctorCAD said:

A tablespoon seems a bit much. A quarter teaspoon per gallon is enough.

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At 6 gallons isn't that around a tablespoon anyway?

Trokair said:

So my first kit is a Vintner's Reserve Riesling. I am starting to bottle it so this is my first taste test. It smells really wonderfull, lots of sweet fruit notes. The taste however leaves something lacking. It takes like butter mixed with vodka. I did add an additional tablespoon of metabisulphite so that the wine would hang around longer after ageing. It came in with an FG of .992.

So will the butter taste age out or did I just bottle 30 bottles of paint thinner?

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Was that a typo? A TABLEspoon of k-meta? Because 1/4 teaspoon is more like the correct dosage for 6 gallons. It'll take a long, long, long, long time for the k-meta to dissipate if you really used a tablespoon. That could explain the poor flavor, though.

DoctorCAD said:

A tablespoon seems a bit much. A quarter teaspoon per gallon is enough.

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More like 1/4 teaspoon per 6 gallons is enough.

Yooper said:

More like 1/4 teaspoon per 6 gallons is enough.

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Used to using tablets, not bulk product, and I use 3 per 6 gallons at bottling.

Less if I have racked within 60 days of bottling. Last nights 10 gallons only got 1 tablet per 5 gallons.

Yooper said:

Was that a typo? A TABLEspoon of k-meta? Because 1/4 teaspoon is more like the correct dosage for 6 gallons. It'll take a long, long, long, long time for the k-meta to dissipate if you really used a tablespoon. That could explain the poor flavor, though.

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I believe that a tablespoon is what I put in it. I will have to check my notes when I get home. I forget where I got the dosage from but I didn't make it up on the fly, I read that amount somewhere. I basically just wanted the wine to hang around for at least 3 years. If that means it won't even be drinkable until 6 months in the bottle I am okay with that I guess. I just don't want to waste the product and the effort.

Any idea how long is a long long long time? We talking 2 years? More?