Sangiovese Wine Kit, Forte

Overview

You are drawn to wines with history, tension, and soul, wines that reward attention and reflect the person who made them. With the Sangiovese Wine Kit, Forte, you choose to become the kind of winemaker who values discipline, patience, and expressive restraint over excess. This is your opportunity to work with a noble varietal known for its ability to translate place and intention into the glass. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this kit invites you to slow down, engage fully in the process, and create a wine that feels deliberate, structured, and confidently your own.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds, you shape a wine defined by energy and depth rather than weight alone. Bright red cherry, sour plum, and wild strawberry lead the profile, supported by Sangiovese’s naturally vivid acidity. Savory notes of dried herbs, tobacco leaf, and subtle leather emerge as the wine develops, adding complexity and dimension. Fine grained tannins provide structure without heaviness, while hints of spice and earth carry through a long, balanced finish. This is a dry, big bodied red wine that feels focused and alive, built for the table and designed to evolve beautifully with time.

What Makes This Kit Different
This kit delivers the ultimate home winemaking experience because you work with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, not shelf stable substitutes engineered for storage rather than expression. 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. Fermenting with both skins and seeds produces a wine with greater definition, natural grip, and textural authenticity. This approach is why wines made with Finer Wine Kits move beyond the familiar kit taste found in shelf stable brands and instead resemble wines fermented from fresh grapes, with clarity, structure, and honest varietal character.

Designed for Confidence and Understanding
You do not need to be an expert to begin, but you will finish the process with a deeper understanding of how wine is truly made. Created by home winemakers like you, Finer Wine Kits translate years of hands on experience into a process that is both approachable and educational. The instructions explain not just what to do, but why each decision matters, allowing you to build skill and intuition rather than simply follow steps. This makes the experience equally satisfying for first time winemakers and those ready to refine their craft.

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, aromatics, and varietal integrity. This direct to door model is the only way a wine kit of this quality can exist. By eliminating distributors and wholesalers, you receive top grade ingredients at peak condition without unnecessary markups, ensuring real value for a genuinely premium product.

The raw grape concentrate is vacuum evaporated at low temperatures to preserve 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. Proper cold storage ensures the finished wine delivers precision, balance, and authenticity.

Technical Details
• Finished alcohol: 14 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Big bodied red wine
• Varietal: Sangiovese
• 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 Sangiovese Wine Kit, Forte, you are not chasing intensity for its own sake. You are creating a wine defined by balance, structure, and intention, a reflection of your patience, your taste, and your commitment to making something truly authentic at home.

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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