Improving a wine kit

[Spectre]

I was toying with the idea of bringing the starting SG of a WineWorks red kit up a little. Seems they start at about 1.078 maximum (stirred propery and temperature corrected). Just to give it a little nudge up the percentage scale.

I was going to add some Tate & Lyle (apparently bettter than beet sugar such as Silver Spoon) to bring the SG up to 1.090.

It seems to finish on 0.998 minimum regardless of temperature and time.

Your thoughts please .

 

[Him Her]

If you overdo it the extra alcohol will kill the reaction leaving the result sweeter and possibly needing more fining...

 

[Spectre]

Aye, the yeast packet doesn't specify the strain so I'm unsure whether the excess alcohol might inhibit it.