Gnarly acid in pineapple wines

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Fruitwhiner

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I made an orange pineapple wine I called The Brunchinator, a tepache-esque brew I call Fauxpache (using the flesh of pineapple rather than skin) and In the Evening, a mellower, less orangey version of the Brunchinator which clarified beautifully for evening drinking. All are horrifically acid. The Brunchinator has been aging for 5 months and the Fauxpache for only 2. Will the pineapple acid mellow out with age or do I need do do something? In the future, how do I stop the overwhelming acid in process? None of these wines tasted so acidy when bottled. Any advice would be greatly appreciated; I love pineapple and am making some tropical fruit wines (like a POG- anyone got a recipe?) which will also likely have lots of acid. I thought I left all that behind when I stopped following The Dead but oh well (lol).
 
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