Sonoma Blend Red Wine Kit, Forte

Overview

You are drawn to wines with character, wines that feel grounded in place and purpose rather than trend. With the Sonoma Blend Red Wine Kit, Forte, you step into the role of a confident home winemaker who values depth, authenticity, and presence in the glass. This is your opportunity to work with a classic California inspired blend that rewards patience and intention. Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, and Syrah come together in a style first embraced in Sonoma, built for those who appreciate bold flavor, structure, and the quiet satisfaction of creating something substantial at home. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this kit allows you to shape a serious red wine that reflects your standards and your taste.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds, you guide a wine that is dense, dark, and unapologetically expressive. Zinfandel brings forward generous blackberry, blueberry, and ripe plum, delivering a core of chewy, mouth filling fruit. Petite Sirah adds firmness and depth, reinforcing the structure with dark color, tannin, and savory undertones. Syrah weaves through the blend with subtle floral notes, cracked pepper, and spice that lift the aromatics and extend the finish. The result is a dry, big bodied red wine with weight and persistence, layered yet cohesive, and deeply satisfying to pour for those who appreciate wines with presence.

What Makes This Kit Different
This is the ultimate home winemaking experience because you work with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, not shelf stable ingredients designed for convenience. Your fermentation includes 4 lbs of real grape skins along with exclusive grape seed packs, a feature unique to Finer Wine Kits. In traditional red winemaking, seeds play a critical role in shaping tannin structure and phenolic balance. When you ferment with both skins and seeds, you achieve greater depth, firmer structure, and a more complete mouthfeel that fully supports a finished alcohol level of 14 percent. These choices are what allow wines made with Finer Wine Kits to move beyond the familiar kit taste associated with shelf stable brands and instead deliver the texture, balance, and authenticity of wine made from fresh grapes.

Designed for Confidence and Control
You do not need extensive experience to succeed, but you will finish the process with a stronger understanding of winemaking and greater confidence in your decisions. Designed by home winemakers like you, Finer Wine Kits translate years of practical experience into a clear and dependable process. The instructions explain not only what to do, but why each step matters, allowing you to engage with the craft rather than simply follow directions. This approach makes the kit equally rewarding for first time winemakers and those ready to elevate the quality of their results.

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 grape character. This direct to door approach is the only way a wine kit of this caliber can exist. By removing distributors and wholesalers from the process, you receive top grade ingredients at peak condition without unnecessary markups, ensuring exceptional value for a genuinely premium product.

The raw grape concentrate is vacuum evaporated at low temperatures to preserve the grape’s natural 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. This cold storage requirement protects quality and ensures your finished wine reflects the depth and integrity built into the ingredients.

Technical Details
• Finished alcohol: 14 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Big bodied red blend
• Varietals: Zinfandel, Petite Sirah, Syrah
• Character: Dry
• Region: Lodi, California
• Fermentation ingredients: Raw grape concentrate, 4 lbs of real grape skins, grape seed packs
• 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 Sonoma Blend Red Wine Kit, Forte, you are creating a wine that reflects patience, intention, and confidence. This is a bold, California inspired red that rewards your effort and delivers the satisfaction of making something substantial, authentic, and unmistakably your own.

Watch the video tutorials for additional instruction. You can view and download the complete instruction booklet here. Advanced users can now also download an abbreviated version of the instructions here.

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

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