Benefit to bottle aging over bulk aging?

[Bonus]

Hi all. I'm fairly new to winemaking (several batches in progress, one successfully completed and mostly consumed), which brings me to my question: If a recipe calls for 6 months' bulk aging followed by a minimum of 6 months' bottle aging, but -- hypothetically, of course -- the winemaker was a bit lazy and had left it in bulk for a year, would it benefit appreciably from sitting an extra few months after being bottled, or would it be at the expected level of drinkability straight away?

Obviously I can taste it at bottling, but even if it's fine then, I don't want to jump the gun if it's likely to vastly improve over the next month or two. I was thinking that perhaps the oxygen introduced at bottling could have an important effect, but I have no clue how long that would take to become apparent in the wine.

Thanks!

 

[bmd2k1]

Curious about the Same Thing & do all types of wine experience some bottle shock and for approx how long?

 

[Bonus]

Aha, I hadn't even thought of bottle shock -- and searching for that term has thrown up the answers I couldn't find before:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/when-is-my-wine-ok-to-drink.298188/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/bottle-time-after-bulk-aging.509412/

So it seems like a month or two post-bottling should be sufficient, which means that if I want to enjoy my strawberry elderflower wine in the garden this summer I need to get bottling STAT!

 

[hamiltonkiler]

Bulk aging in my opinion 7-12 months really let’s the less fall out before bottling. I’ve bottled after a month in the carboy and came back to check the bottles under my house a few months later and they had less stuck to the side. I store my bottles on their side. So if I bulk age in the carboy 7-12 months the less falls out to the bottom and I don’t let my racking cane touch the bottom and I bottle cleaner wine. Throw away about 1/2” of wine/ less/ yeast that settles to the bottom.
Cheers

 

[bmd2k1]

Aha, I hadn't even thought of bottle shock -- and searching for that term has thrown up the answers I couldn't find before:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/when-is-my-wine-ok-to-drink.298188/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/forum/threads/bottle-time-after-bulk-aging.509412/

So it seems like a month or two post-bottling should be sufficient, which means that if I want to enjoy my strawberry elderflower wine in the garden this summer I need to get bottling STAT!

Tossing in bottles w/corks, swing-tops, screw ons, other? [emoji57]