Cabernet Sauvignon Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan

Overview

You are drawn to wines that feel energetic yet grounded, wines that balance structure with personality and invite conversation at the table. With the Cabernet Sauvignon Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan, you step into a style of home winemaking that blends classic discipline with expressive character. This is a wine for someone who appreciates contrast and harmony working together, power shaped by brightness, and richness lifted by spice. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this kit allows you to create a wine that feels engaging, layered, and distinctly your own.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation develops, you shape a wine that brings two bold varietals into natural alignment. Cabernet Sauvignon provides structure and depth, offering notes of blackcurrant, blackberry, and dark plum along with subtle herbal undertones. Zinfandel weaves through the blend with vibrant acidity and spice, introducing cracked black pepper, clove, anise, and a touch of warmth that keeps the wine lively and expressive. The palate is full bodied yet agile, with firm but polished tannins and a long, savory finish that carries dark fruit, spice, and gentle vanilla notes as the wine matures. This is a dry red wine that feels dynamic, balanced, and deeply satisfying.

What Makes This Kit Different
This is premium home winemaking built around authenticity rather than shelf stability. You work with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, not heat processed substitutes designed to tolerate long periods at room temperature. Each Artisan kit includes 2 lbs of real grape skins and 2 oz of grape seeds, delivering natural color, texture, and phenolic structure while preserving fruit focus and balance. In traditional red winemaking, fermenting with skins and seeds is essential to achieving a complete and natural mouthfeel. This approach is why wines made with Finer Wine Kits move beyond the familiar kit taste associated with shelf stable brands and instead express the depth, realism, and freshness expected from wines made with fresh grapes.

A Classic Expression of Balance
Artisan wines are designed to finish at 12.5 to 13 percent alcohol, a range long regarded as the classic sweet spot for fine wine. This level preserves fruit clarity and integration while maintaining structure and length on the palate. The result is a full bodied wine that matures sooner and expresses greater fruit forwardness than higher alcohol wines, allowing balance and complexity to emerge without extended aging.

Cold Stored, Direct to Your Door
This kit is a true agricultural product and cannot sit on a shelf. Because of its perishable nature, it is stored cold and shipped directly from freezer storage to your door, preserving freshness, aroma, and varietal character. This direct to door model is essential to quality and is a defining principle behind every Finer Wine Kits product. By eliminating distributors and wholesalers, you receive top grade ingredients at peak condition without unnecessary markups.

The raw grape concentrate is vacuum evaporated at low temperatures to protect the grape’s intrinsic character and avoid the cooked flavors common in shelf stable kits. If you are not ready to begin immediately, the grape skins must be stored in your freezer, and the raw grape concentrates must be stored at 3 degrees F or colder to preserve quality.

Technical Details
• Finished alcohol: 12.5 to 13 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Full bodied red blend
• Varietals: Cabernet Sauvignon and Zinfandel
• Character: Dry
• Region: Lodi, California
• Fermentation ingredients: Raw grape concentrate, 2 lbs of real grape skins, 2 oz of grape seeds
• Storage requirements: Grape skins must be stored in the freezer, raw grape concentrates must be stored at 3 degrees F or colder
• Important notice: This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed

With the Cabernet Sauvignon Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan, you create a wine defined by contrast and cohesion. It is a bold yet balanced expression that rewards attention, reflects confidence, and delivers a premium home winemaking experience shaped by intention and taste.

*This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed.

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