Merlot Wine Kit, Prodigy

Overview

You are drawn to wines that feel smooth, generous, and effortlessly composed. With the Merlot Wine Kit, Prodigy, you create a wine that emphasizes comfort and confidence through balance and approachability. This is Merlot shaped by clarity and ease, ideal for those who value softness, fruit expression, and a natural sense of harmony in the glass. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this kit allows you to produce a wine that feels inviting, polished, and instinctively well judged.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds, you guide a Merlot that highlights plush fruit and gentle structure. Ripe plum and blackberry lead the profile, joined by soft notes of cherry and subtle earth. Fresh acidity keeps the palate lively, while smooth, rounded tannins give the wine shape without firmness. The finish is dry and clean, carrying fruit and softness with a calm, satisfying flow. This is a light to medium bodied Merlot that feels fruit forward, smooth, and highly versatile, equally suited to casual sipping or relaxed meals.

Designed for Natural Expression
Prodigy wines are designed to emphasize clarity, freshness, and fruit definition. Finishing at 12 to 12.5 percent alcohol, this Merlot maintains aromatic lift and balance while avoiding excess weight on the palate. The structure develops smoothly over a shorter aging window, allowing the wine’s soft fruit character and gentle texture to remain front and center as it matures. The result is a wine that feels fluid, expressive, and naturally proportioned from first pour through full evolution.

Cold Stored, Direct to Your Door
This kit is a true agricultural product and cannot sit on a shelf. It is made with raw grape concentrates that are cold stored and shipped directly to your door to preserve freshness, aroma, and varietal integrity. This cold chain approach is fundamental to how Finer Wine Kits delivers wines that avoid the cooked flavors common in shelf stable kits.

The raw grape concentrate is vacuum evaporated at low temperatures to protect the grape’s natural character. If you are not ready to begin immediately, the concentrate must be stored at 3 degrees C (38 F) or colder to maintain quality.

Technical Details
• Finished alcohol: 12 to 12.5 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Light to medium bodied red wine
• Varietal: Merlot
• Character: Dry
• Region: Lodi, California
• Fermentation ingredients: Raw grape concentrate
• Aging profile: Balanced structure with a typical aging window of 4 to 6 months
• Storage requirements: Raw grape concentrates must be stored at 3 degrees C (38 F) or colder
• Important notice: This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed

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

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