tonyhibbett
Landlord.
Having tried the Cal. Con. barolo and been intially disappointed by it's initial taste but delighted with it it 9 months later, when I saw the Kenridge Classic version in the window of my lhbs at £50 I thought I'd give it a go. This time I used mineral water instead of my tap water, since it was only £1 per 5 litres and I only needed 13 litres for the kit, but I bought 20 litres because I wanted the PET bottles to mature the wine in relative bulk. This may well have influenced the outcome. Once the wine had cleared, (not filtered) I siphoned it into the 4 PET 5 litre bottles, with 2 and a half bottles left over. Naturally I drank the half bottleful. Superb! At £2 per bottle, not the cheapest wine kit around, but I can assure you, if you got wine of this quality for less than £6, you'd got a very good bargain!