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.
Old wine - brandy or spirit?
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Old wine - brandy or spirit?
Brewer for decades, dabbler in distilling trying to get better at the craft.