Old wine - brandy or spirit?

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Warthaug
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Old wine - brandy or spirit?

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We make a fair bit of wine, and recently found some old white wine (2016 & 2018 vintage) that is no longer good. It's fairly oxidized, and a bit acidic. I normally distill wine/Mead's/beers that I mess up to near-azeotrope, to make clean spirit for gin. But in this case this isn't something I messed up, and instead is just old. Do you think it may distill into an OK brandy, or should I just aim for a "clean" spirit?

Edit: to clarify, I have a pot still and a Boka that produces a very clean distillate. I'm trying to decide if I want to pot-still it to a brandy, or if that would be unlikely to produce something good. If it isn't going to work I'll just Boka it to make clean spirit for gin or other projects.
Brewer for decades, dabbler in distilling trying to get better at the craft.

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