Best Wine You've Ever Made?

[Bluespark]

I'm just getting into the hobby, so I dont have anything significant to contribute. I made a cheap, tasty, sparkling berry "wine"coolerish thing that every one loved, but that doesnt really count. My strawberry apple is in secondary and smells divine at 3 months old.

my favorite wines are from a local winery that makes grapeless fruit wines. their cherry and strawberry ruebarb are amazing.

So out of curiousity, what do you think is the best wine you've ever made?

 

[collitchboy]

While I have not been disappointed in any of the wines I have made thus far I would say the 'best' has been a Blackberry that I bottled in late December. I can't wait to see how it ages.

 

[Arpolis]

I think my favorite wine so far is my skeeter pee fermented off a white grape peach yeast slurry. Super refreshing and just a great lemony flavor.

 

[saramc]

My raspberry melomel rocks.

 

[Bluespark]

I have a raspberry melomel, cherry chipotle melomel, strawberry, blood orange and a Pom melomels, orange spice, hibiscus, vanilla, and chocolate methaglins and a concord pyment in secondary, 1-3.5 months old. 2 batches of JAOM, and a new one I started 10 days ago that will be a peach, orange, passionflower and chamomile concoction.

None old enough to drink!!! It's nice hearing about others successes while I impatiently wait.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Cabernet Sauvignon where I actually added pepper corns and crushed red pepper.

Everyone LOVED it. Even serious wine snobs.

*Replying to the thread title, which did not mention "grapeless"*

 

[Bluespark]

It doesn't have to be grape less

 

[cheezydemon3]

It doesn't have to be grape less

Right on, just seemed that the OP mentioned only grapeless and even used the word, so I figured that was the intended course!



I guess in a way it was a cayenne wine.

 

[Bluespark]

My favorites are grape less, but yours doesn't have to be. Sounds fantastic, been debating making something with pepper....

 

[cheezydemon3]

My favorites are grape less, but yours doesn't have to be. Sounds fantastic, been debating making something with pepper....

I accidentally dumped a BUNCH of the crushed red flakes (maybe 2 tbsp) and I added 1 tbsp of black peppercorns.

I also let it dry waaaaaaaaay out. I didn't stop fermentation until way late intentionally.

 

[Yooper]

The best wine I've ever made?

My husband says it was a tannot/merlot blend that I did in 2007. There are just about 2 bottles left.

My favorite was an oaked blackberry I did in about 2004. That one has been gone for while now!