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I'd go with No 1 and No 3. But that's my personal taste.

Awesome pic. I hope to get to France next year. Though this first trip I probably won't stray far from Paris.

The French are very testy about their appellations. So Vieux Chateau du Roi and the Eclipse Nocturne are, at least in the case of the former for sure, clever workarounds for Chateauneuf du Pape. I like how they're tety about their appellations, but this all starts with them swiping the...

I know enough French that I shoulda known better.

Okay, I uncorked a bottle of Nocturnal on which the yeast was dropped on July 31st, 2017. The raspberry and plum notes are there, the woodsmoke not so much, and nothing but the subtlest hint of the oaking regime as prescribed by the kit instructions. So I'd describe it as a bit fruit...

A premium red it at 200 bucks is still a 600 dollar value if you insist on putting a price (of 20 bucks a bottle) on it. You could sneak into a SL district vineyard and swipe 100 lbs of merlot grapes to get your six gallons and turn it into an absolute crapfest. Kits are giving you what...

Well, it's got me curious enough to hopefully open a bottle tonight at the 16 month mark. I'm very partial to GSM's myself.

I'd add that I've sent emails to Winexpert begging them to consider making the Eclipse Nocturnal a regular in their lineup. Hope others do the same.

I've made this kit several times. I've thought along the same lines as you - the last time I made this was in Januaury - and that was to give my other GSM - the limited release Winexpert Eclipse Nocturnal, a fighting chance at making it to a couple of years of age (I made two Nocturnals: One...

I'm with you on the concern about headspace. The problem is WE in their own instructions say not to worry about the headspace for the duration of an eight week kit. I do top up if I'm bulk aging beyond that (which is what I do now) but on some kits I was aging in the bottle - hence the...

I tend to do Eclipse kits, and I can say that when all is said and done on the red kits at least I get the 30 bottles maybe one out of ten times. It's usually 27 or 28, once as low as 26.

I dedicate one bottle per batch to drinking by myself after a long day at work. I try to be absolutely certain that I'm not going to have to leave the house except maybe wobble out to the mail box. This is my confirmation of alchohol content. Recently, I drank a bottle of WE New Zealand...

I buy exclusively from LP. I've never paid MSRP from them. Great, timely service too.

I noticed from your profile you're in the Virginia area. Like Michigan, they have a Falconry Association that has meetups a few times a year to show the general public what they're all about. There's one coming up in August for the Virginians. However, I'm guessing if you want to see the...

In my late forties I got it into my head that I wanted to do falconry (I'm mid fifties now). Hanging around the falconry forums (there are such things, just like this here winemaking forum) I chanced upon a guy who lived relatively close and was willing to sponsor me. Falconry is heavily...

No problem at all. I went through a little panic when I started the batch Sunday morning because I had everything going and I'm like..didn't someone post instructions about saving the second packet of Bourbon Oak and no such instruction appears to be in the instructions? So I looked at them...

Yep, French....Mine are in both English and French but nothing about saving an bourbon oak packet - except on the packet itself.

If someone upstream hadn't posted about the new instructions I would have missed it because they are not actually in the instructions. I was looking carefully because I remembered reading about it on here.

Well, I still have one....my reads on the back - Please save one packet of 007206 Bourbon Oak Chips 60g to add at Sep 3.3 (Day 15 -Clearing). The other said this too - though it's in the fermenter now (and at 52 hours a particular vigorous fermentation).