I've been making wine from packaged wine kits now for several years and when I saw the Chateau Classico kits on Amazon for $85 I had to try one. First of all, $85 for a 16 litre red wine kit is a great deal and it comes complete with labels, real corks, and foil caps. Add that to the free shipping and no sales tax and it's a no-brainer. The wine is great. I've completed 17 of these Chateau Classico kits now of various types and they are all good.
Honestly I was attracted by the great price and free shipping on an 16+ liter kit. If you have ever done a kit before this was no different then all of the rest. Ingredients are clearly marked and the directions are adequate.
My kit has been in the bottle now for 6 months and the wine is light bodied and very approachable.
Planning on starting another one of these kits in the next month.
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I bought two of these kits and both turned out very good wine.
My first attempt at wine making!
After 6 weeks, both wines turned out really nice, definitely drinkable quality wine, about 14.5% alcohol. If you purchased the wine at a store, I would estimate the quality in the 12-15 dollar range. Not incredible, but highly drinkable and remember this is just after 6 weeks with no aging.
Although it was my first attempt at making wine from a kit, I did have some coaching from a very experienced beer making friend. As the others said, the kit comes with corks, labels and concentrated juice. The rest you need to buy on your own. The rest consists of a wine making bucket, a carboy (6 gal), a gravity measuring device, thermometer. stirring stick I attached to a drill, wine thief, 6 foot clear plastic hose, siphoning tube, bottling device and of course bottles. I spent about 120 for all these items, which of course are re-usable. The bottles I collected from a local liquor store.
For one of the two batches I followed the instructions precisely. The second batch, I added oak chips during the fermentation phase.
Most of my family and friends favor the non-oak added wine. They enjoy it very much. We had a big gathering for my daughters graduation ceremony and the wine flowed fast! I suspect the oak produced wine needs a little more time to fully develop, but that's just a guess on my part.
I'll update as these two 6 gallon kits age.
I started a third kit 4 weeks ago, without adding any water. I'm looking forward to the finished product.
Best, Mike
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I just bottled this wine. It stated it was a full 6 gallons. In order to get 6 gallons, I needed to top off with better than a gallon of water. I thought that would dilute the wine too much, so I racked it into a 5 gallon carboy and proceeded from there. I did add oak chips during the fermenting process.
The end result, this wine is great. When I asked my wife what she thought, she said this wine is way better than the wine she buys today. I'd defintely do another one of these.
Since I didn't get the full six gallons therefore 4 stars. I did a similar report on the Malbac.
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