Cali Southern Rhone-Style Wine Kit, Artisan

Overview

You are drawn to wines that feel generous, expressive, and rooted in tradition, wines meant to be shared around a table where conversation flows as easily as the bottle. With the Cali Southern Rhone-Style Wine Kit, Artisan, you explore Finer Wine Kits’ unique take on a southern French classic, interpreted through premium California fruit and a refined, modern sensibility. This is a wine that values warmth, balance, and harmony, capturing the welcoming spirit of Southern Rhône blends while allowing you to shape a wine that feels personal, confident, and deeply satisfying.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds, you guide a blend that is layered, inviting, and expressive. Grenache leads with bright strawberry, ripe cherry, and red berry warmth that gives the wine its open, approachable core. Syrah adds depth and structure, contributing dark fruit, cracked pepper, and subtle floral notes that ground the blend and add dimension. Moscato introduces a delicate lift, weaving in fresh citrus tones that brighten the palate and keep the wine vibrant and composed. The result is a full bodied red wine with supple texture, balanced acidity, and a finish that carries fruit, spice, and freshness in harmony.

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 endure room temperature storage. Each Artisan kit includes 2 lbs of real grape skins and 2 oz of grape seeds, delivering natural color, texture, and phenolic balance while preserving approachability and fruit focus. 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 balance 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: Grenache, Syrah, Moscato
• 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 Cali Southern Rhone-Style Wine Kit, Artisan, you create a wine that reflects generosity, balance, and tradition. It is Finer Wine Kits’ thoughtful interpretation of a southern French classic, offering a premium home winemaking experience that feels welcoming, expressive, and enduring.

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

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