Question about blending

[Cjacquette81]

I’m about to start trying my hand at fruit wines and blending fruits. My question is do you all ferment together or separately and blend afterwards?

Thinking about making individual wines and taking a portion of them and blend in various ratios to determine what’s best the mixing st the ratio I thought best.

Any thoughts or experiences?

 

[bernardsmith]

I think it depends. If I was making a mixed berry wine I would mix the berries and ferment the juice. I am currently making a mead (honey wine) made from honey, dates and figs and here I fermented all three separately and my plan is to blend the three - I want the honey to dominate and the dates to support the honey with the figs adding notes so My approach is to blend the three wines using different quantities of each (perhaps 4:2:1 - I have yet to do the bench tests).

 

[Cjacquette81]

I want to try a banana mango wine but have no clue as to portions So was thinking make separately and take a gallon of each of try different rations until I find one that works