Sweetening Youngs Wine Kit

[divingdavey]

Hello

I have recenlty bottled a Youngs Gooseberry Wine kit, I'm happy enough with the results, but the mrs would prefer it not so dry - alas I have lost the instructions that came with it with details of how to sweeten, can anyone help?

I don't have a hydrometer, is there a sweetener that someone could suggest, and is there a rule of thumb amount about how much to add to each bottle?

Thanks in advance

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Assuming you have used Stabiliser the easy way to do it is to add sugar.
Pour half a litre of wine into a sterile measuring jug then add a quarter of a teaspoon of sugar stir and taste, keep going until you get to the requires sweetness, if for example it takes half a teaspoon to make the half litre drinkable you need to add one and a half teaspoons to each full 75ml bottle, i do this just before drinking as i don't like shaking the bottles then putting them back into storage.

 

[divingdavey]

Thanks for that.... I'll do that :)

 

[LeithR]

You can also use an artificial sweetner particularly if you have not stabilized the wine with Potassium Sorbate and a Campden Tablet, again its a bit of suck it and see as suggested in an earlier post.