Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan

Overview

You are drawn to wines with personality, wines that feel generous, expressive, and unmistakably confident. With the Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan, you step into a varietal that celebrates bold fruit and natural exuberance without sacrificing balance. This is a wine for someone who enjoys richness and energy in equal measure, where intensity is shaped by craftsmanship rather than excess. Crafted from premium California grapes and developed by Finer Wine Kits, this kit allows you to create a Zinfandel that feels vibrant, layered, and deeply satisfying.

Flavor and Style
As fermentation unfolds, you guide a wine that leans into Zinfandel’s signature warmth and generosity. Juicy blackberry, ripe raspberry, and dark cherry form the core, layered with cracked black pepper, baking spice, and subtle anise. A touch of natural sweetness on the nose gives way to a dry, structured finish, supported by integrated tannins and bright acidity. The wine shows a deep, saturated color and a rounded mouthfeel that carries fruit and spice effortlessly across the palate. This is a medium to full bodied red wine that feels lively yet composed, offering richness without heaviness and boldness without imbalance.

What Makes This Kit Different
This is premium home winemaking built around authenticity rather than shelf stability. You work with raw grape concentrates and real grape skins, not heat processed substitutes designed to endure room temperature storage. Each Artisan kit includes 2 lbs of real grape skins and 2 oz of grape seeds, delivering natural color, texture, and phenolic balance while preserving freshness and varietal integrity. In traditional red winemaking, fermenting with skins and seeds is essential to achieving a complete and natural mouthfeel. This approach is why wines made with Finer Wine Kits move beyond the familiar kit taste associated with shelf stable brands and instead express the depth, realism, and structure expected from wines made with 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 allows Zinfandel’s fruit to remain vivid and expressive while maintaining structure and length. The result is a medium to full bodied wine that matures sooner and shows greater fruit forwardness than higher alcohol versions, allowing complexity and balance 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: Medium to full bodied red wine
• Varietal: Zinfandel
• 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 Zinfandel Wine Kit, Artisan, you create a wine that is bold, expressive, and unmistakably alive. It is a confident interpretation of a classic California varietal, offering a premium home winemaking experience rooted in balance, authenticity, and character.

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

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