Cabernet Franc Wine Kit, Artisan

Pre-Order - Estimated Ship Date: 04/21/26

Overview

You are drawn to elegant wines that combine aromatic finesse with the structure and depth of a serious red. With the Cabernet Franc Wine Kit, Artisan, you craft a wine that reflects both refinement and authority, balancing vibrant fruit with savory complexity. This is a wine for someone who appreciates character and nuance, where subtlety carries as much weight as power. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this Cabernet Franc allows you to shape a classic varietal expression in your own cellar, guided by tradition and elevated by your hand.

Flavor and Style

As fermentation progresses, you develop a wine that reveals its character in layers. Cabernet Franc is known for its expressive aromatics, offering notes of red currant, raspberry, and dark cherry supported by subtle hints of violet and crushed herbs. Deeper tones of black plum and cassis emerge as the wine matures, adding richness and structure to the mid palate. Gentle accents of cocoa, cedar, and spice add complexity while maintaining clarity of fruit. The finish is dry, structured, and persistent, delivering a full bodied red that balances brightness with depth.

What Makes This Kit Different

This is premium home winemaking designed around authenticity rather than shelf stability. You work with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, not heat processed substitutes made to tolerate room temperature storage. Each Artisan kit includes 2 lbs of real grape skins and 2 oz of grape seeds, providing natural color, texture, and phenolic structure while preserving finesse and fruit focus. In traditional red winemaking, fermenting with skins and seeds is essential to building a complete and natural mouthfeel. This approach is why wines made with Finer Wine Kits avoid the simplified, cooked profile often associated with shelf stable brands and instead deliver the depth, balance, and realism of wine made from 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 C (38 F) or colder to maintain quality.

Technical Details

• Finished alcohol: 12.5 to 13 percent ABV
• Yield: 28 to 30 bottles, 6 gallons
• Style: Full bodied red wine
• Varietal: Cabernet Franc
• 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 C (38 F) or colder
• Important notice: This kit is an agricultural product and must be fermented or cooked before being consumed

With the Cabernet Franc Wine Kit, Artisan, you craft a wine defined by elegance, structure, and aromatic depth. It is a refined yet expressive red that rewards patience and attention, offering a winemaking experience grounded in authenticity and classic varietal character.

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

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