Bordeaux-Style Wine Kit, Artisan

Overview

You are drawn to wines with lineage, wines that carry a sense of place and tradition while still feeling relevant to the way you live today. With the Bordeaux-Style Wine Kit, Artisan, you embrace a disciplined, classic approach to home winemaking, one that values structure, balance, and restraint over excess. This is a wine for someone who appreciates nuance, depth, and the satisfaction of creating something layered and thoughtful. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this blend allows you to bring the spirit of a timeless Bordeaux-inspired red into your own cellar, shaped by your hand and guided by proven principles.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation progresses, you shape a wine that unfolds gradually and rewards attention. Cabernet Sauvignon provides the backbone with notes of black currant, graphite, and dried herbs. Merlot softens the structure, adding ripe plum, dark cherry, and a polished mid palate, while Petite Sirah contributes depth of color, subtle spice, and a firm yet refined frame. Hints of cocoa, coffee bean, and gentle vanilla emerge as the wine develops, adding dimension without overshadowing the fruit. The finish is dry, structured, and cohesive, offering a full bodied red wine that emphasizes balance, clarity, and classic expression.

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 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: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petite Sirah
• 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 Bordeaux-Style Wine Kit, Artisan, you create a wine grounded in tradition and shaped by precision. It is a measured, expressive red that reflects patience, taste, and a respect for classic structure, offering a deeply rewarding home winemaking experience rooted in timeless style.

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

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