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A California Viognier? Maybe something I should make as well, as a summer refresher. As far as I recall, the only Viognier I tried from California is the Mcmanis Viognier, that was decent. Neither do I, the only kits I do in this range goes into BIB as table wine. Aha, wine on tap! What a...

Some info here: "With this in mind, you should avoid fruity, easy-to-drink kits. Many (al-though not all) kit Chardonnays are rather soft and fruity, with most of the structure provided by oak powder. They may not make the most appropriate sparkling wine. Any wine kit that comes with an F-pack...

So a fix amount independent of how long you have been driving? It sounds like that we in Sweden will get a milage based tax in the future. (we used to have that on diesel fueled cars, all diesel cars had a meter for that.) In Norway, where more than 2/3 of all new cars are electric, the...

That was new to me, thanks for the info.

Huh! And that is the reason for having wooden boards in the first place. I read cleaning guidelines from the Swedish food administration advising against cleaning all wooden boards at the same time as it would mean loosing the desired microflora. I work in a company where we produce pickled...

Their instructions state: "Topping up the carboy during the clearing process is not required. If choosing to top-up use a similar style of wine. Water is not recommended. "

Have you thought of why? Variation in ulllage, temperature, light...?

I guess the enzymes responsible for browning in grapes aren't thermally inactivated, like polyphenol oxidase that is responsible for browning in grape juice. I really do hope you guys solve this as you got a really nice concept for wine kits.

Oh, I was discussing low end kits, perhaps a mistake. I thought wine lovers was low ends kits. I wasn't including the likes of WE, that I'm sure have juice in their premium kits. But here is an interesting quote from Tim Vandergrift about labeling laws of re-hydrated concentrates: "Full-size...

Not sure if my point came through but some producers hide the addition of water in the word "juice concentrate", both will be labelled as "juice concentrate" both being made from the SAME 85 brix concentrate to use your example: Medium body: 5.2 liter with brix 85, labelled "juice concentrate"...

I'm not sure why you say that? Their ingredients list has no "juice" in the list for the heavy body Merlot kit: Ingredients: Grape juice concentrate (preserved with sulphur dioxide), liquid invert sugar, tartaric acid, malic acid, citric acid, tanin, ascorbic acid. Additives (included in Wine...

No, it can't be. The math doesn't add up. 4,8 liter giving an ABV of 7% gives an OG of the 23 liter to be around 1,046. That means the light body juice is 47 brix. 5,2 liter giving an ABV of 11% , the OG of the 23 liter need to be around 1,079. That means the medium body juice is 68 brix. 16...

We are not disagreeing. I too was surprised when I saw that one in your picture.

I would have voted for the Piquepoul Blanc too but I'm not voting since I can't buy FW kits. Edit, but I would have wanted a Grüner Veltliner on the list as well but I guess that that too is uncommon grape in the USA.

Finer Wines is hardly paying retail prize for it.

Well, there are movements, called diffusion. There will be a movement (a "random walk" by the molecules) from an area with a higher concentration to an area with a lower concentration until the concentration is the same throughout the liquid and equilibrium is reached. Having said that, given...

You guys weren't joking about the color! I know some said the color doesn't matter that much but that looks like a strawberry wine.

Haha!

I'm curious, why 23 and not 20 liter as you seldom will get 23 liter from a kit? Unless topping up that is.

Have you misread the instructions? This is how the instructions for WE wine kits with grape skins look like: 1.5 Add Grape Skins. To do this, sanitize the included muslin bag by dipping it into your sulphite solution. The included sulphite/sorbate packet is not used for this purpose. (Visit...