Youngs 7 day chardonnay

[bluebell]

My first ever kit so thanks to all on here for your advice to get me this far.
Instructions were fairly easy to follow although timings were out. I actually took a month to get it to a reasonably drinkable state, it looks like chardonnay, it doesn’t have much bouquet it tastes fine a little like chardonnay but not outstandingly so. It is pleasant and easy to drink on its own, best well chilled. Strangely it is less good with food, I had it with a poached salmon salad and it lost almost all of its taste. At around £2 per bottle it knocks the spots off of many that retail at £5 even if it does have a few odd quirks.
Will I make it again? Probably not I think I would go for one of the slightly more expensive kits (if you shop around they are only £1 or £2 more to make 6 bottles). It will also depend how good the WOW turns out and I want to try some wines from fruit.

 

[Eric_S]

I've made the Youngs Cabernet style and the strawberry - both seem ok (having only tasted a little at bottling time) but i'm leaving them for now to see if they benefit from aging. I've found the 7 day a little optimistic as well - the Cabernet was closer to a month from starting to bottling.

I've made WoW a couple of times. My mum and sis like them so can't be too bad.

Like you, going for more expensive kits (trying a few of the Beaverdale kits shortly), plus a few home-made variations of Easy White and WoW.

 

[Moley]

Congratulations on your first efforts.

Personally, I would never make up any Young's kit wine, I would never make up any “7 day” kit wine and I would never make up any white kit wine, so if your Young's 7-day Chardonnay has turned out drinkable, things should only get better.

You're never going to get full-bodied reds from supermarket juices, so try the (Beaverdale, CalCon and upwards) kits if that's the sort of thing you want to make, but with a bit of practice and a bit of patience it's quite easy to make white or pink juice wines for 50p a bottle which will also knock spots off anything the supermarkets sell for a fiver.

Fresh fruits can be very rewarding, and the bottle price can go down considerably if you do a bit of scavenging, but the patience aspect really comes into play with country wines.