Coastal White (White Burgundy Style) (Vintner's Reserve)

Winexpert makes wine kits in several price ranges, the Eclipse and Selection International series being more expensive, the Vintner's Reserve kits being more reasonable. The latter are generally in the $60 range, which means, that since the kit makes approximately 30 750ML bottles, each bottle costs approximately two dollars. Over the past six years I've made Winexpert kits from the different series, and while the more expensive kits produce the best wine (as one would hope), even their more reasonably-priced kits are excellent.

This is certainly true of the Coastal White, which is in the Vintner's Reserve series and which I made a couple years ago. This wine is a close match to a white burgundy. It is one of the drier whites available and is extremely light in color. Despite its dryness, it does have certain fruity overtones, which come to the fore particularly as the wine ages. (Like most whites, the Coastal White can be drunk within a couple months of bottling, but it continues to develop for six months to a year.)

Like all wine kits from Winexpert, the Coastal White comes with clear, explicit instructions. The time from initial mixing to bottling is 6 weeks. I have found that a typical wine kit takes a total of about three to four hours of my time.