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Purchased a Private Reserve Colosso Italian kit. As I started going through the box I was amazed at all the unnecessary ingredients enclosed. I’m sure it’s so the wine doesn’t fail for any newbie wine makers. Here’s what I mean. Two packages of yeast; RC 212 and EC 1118 to be sprinkled at the same time. Well there goes any RC 212 profile as I believe the EC 1118 will take over the fermentation. 30g of bentonite, two 12.5 ml packages of Kieselsol and almost 5 ounces of Chitosan. That’s five times the recommended dose on a Chitosan bottle. I would be concerned about stripping color and flavor with all those clarifiers. Then again I suppose this is fast track wine as the box says wine in 6-8 weeks. I’ll make the kit and probably skip all those additives and bottle in about a year or so. The kit wasn’t cheap. I’m curious how the wine will turn out with my tweaks.