Bought this for a change (usually make WOW's), for ã50 recently
I'd made one of the kenridge kits before and it was pretty good.
You get a load of grape juice in the kit, can't quite remember how much (it's a heavy box though)
The kit comes with fried elderberries and oak chips and all the rest of the usual requirements (stabiliser/finings etc), as you would expect.
The one thing that I didn't do (deliberately), was follow the instructions, after starting it off.
The instructions call for the wine to be racked at least twice (maybe three) times, which I couldn't be bothered doing. So I just left it in the primary until it had gone down to 0.990, left it another week, then racked/stabilised/degassed/added finings after that (in accordance with the instructions on those bits)
It was about 23 days from start to bottle, which I did last night and had a few glasses to sample.
Very nice result, much more body than a 25 quid kit (eg cellar 7), so pretty happy with it.
If I thought I had to follow the instructions to the letter I probably wouldn't have bothered making it, but I asked the chap in my local hb shop his opinion and he said he had made it too, and didn't feel the need for all the racking.... I suppose it must make some difference if the makers specify it, but I'd rather short cut the method even at the cost of a minor impact on taste ðŸËâ¬
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I'd made one of the kenridge kits before and it was pretty good.
You get a load of grape juice in the kit, can't quite remember how much (it's a heavy box though)
The kit comes with fried elderberries and oak chips and all the rest of the usual requirements (stabiliser/finings etc), as you would expect.
The one thing that I didn't do (deliberately), was follow the instructions, after starting it off.
The instructions call for the wine to be racked at least twice (maybe three) times, which I couldn't be bothered doing. So I just left it in the primary until it had gone down to 0.990, left it another week, then racked/stabilised/degassed/added finings after that (in accordance with the instructions on those bits)
It was about 23 days from start to bottle, which I did last night and had a few glasses to sample.
Very nice result, much more body than a 25 quid kit (eg cellar 7), so pretty happy with it.
If I thought I had to follow the instructions to the letter I probably wouldn't have bothered making it, but I asked the chap in my local hb shop his opinion and he said he had made it too, and didn't feel the need for all the racking.... I suppose it must make some difference if the makers specify it, but I'd rather short cut the method even at the cost of a minor impact on taste ðŸËâ¬
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