On the use of medicinal wines…
Alcohol warms the center and supplements the qi as well as raising clear yang and quickening the blood. In large amounts it is hot and damaging to the liver, but in small quantities is is often used for older people or old injuries that have not resolved due to long-standing blood stasis. Remember that blood stasis is almost always a part of any enduring disease or chronic, degenerative disease in the aging. The Chinese medical explanation of why wine is considered preventive for heart disease in small, but regular quantities is its ability to quicken the blood and dispel stasis.

Warming & Quickening Wine
Tao Ren, Hong Hua, Chuan Niu Xi, Dang Gui Wei, Du Zhong, Xu Duan, Gou Qi Zi, Ji Xue Teng, Xiao Hui Xiang, Gui Zhi, (all 9-10 grams)
Gan Cao and Qin Jiao (both 6 grams)
Soak in 1-2 quarts or liters of sherry, brandy, or rice wine for up to a two months.
Strain and bottle. Will keep indefinitely.
Use 1 ounce per day for enduring injury or musculoskeletal pain that has not resolved because of blood stasis
Small amounts only!!!

If you started this wine in July, it would be ready just in time for Autumn. That's perfect since wines as a form of administration is more often used in Fall and Winter.