Tampering with Tempranillo.

We are doing some wine work tonight. We have our 2014 Tempranillo ready to enter the fair. We bottled it about 2 or 3 months ago. We tasted a bottle recently and were not happy.

Last Monday, we uncorked the whole batch, about 25 bottles, into a five gallon carboy. Tonight, we are adding some grape juice concentrate to try and improve the flavor.

The trick is to figure out how much juice to add.

We pulled out one cup of wine and added one tablespoon of juice. That did not seem to do much so we added a second tablespoon. We liked the change. Now we have to extrapolate of numbers into a measurement for five gallons. According to our calculations we needed to add a half gallon of juice. That did not seem right. Susan purchased two 12 oz. cans of Old Orchard Grape Juice. We added one can to the carboy, tasted and added the second. We have decided to add one more but will have to wait until tomorrow because we have to purchase more.