Reserve Californian Merlot Wine Kit
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- SKU:
- 3247
- UPC:
- 629181082911
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Your Reserve Californian Merlot Wine Kit is a premium winemaking kit that produces a rich, full-bodied Merlot known for its abundant fruit and herbaceous subtleties. This kit delivers a wine that perfectly balances berry and spice flavors with a smooth, supple texture, making it an excellent companion for grilled meats, red meats, lamb, and hearty stews. Particularly enjoyable on crisp autumn evenings, this Merlot is renowned for its ripe cherry character.
Despite a reduction in packaging size from 16L to 10L, the Reserve Californian Merlot Wine Kit maintains its quality and quantity, still producing the same amount of wine. This kit includes 10L of juice and yields a 6-gallon batch (23 L), which translates to approximately 28-30 standard 750 ml bottles.
The Merlot produced from this kit is deep in color and full of fruit intensity, offering a dry sweetness and medium body. It also features a medium oak intensity, adding to its complexity and depth of flavor. With an alcohol by volume (ABV) of 13%, this wine is a robust choice for any occasion.
Product Specifications:
- Sweetness: Dry
- Body: Medium
- Tasting Notes: Deep in color & full of fruit intensity
- Oak Intensity: Medium
- Kit Size: 10L
- ABV: 13%
- Yield: 6 Gallon batch (23 L), approximately 28-30 standard 750 ml Bottles.
Aging Guidelines for This Wine Kit
Recommended aging: 2 to 9 months after completing the winemaking process. This wine offers depth and structure that benefit from time to develop. Aging helps its fruit, oak, and tannins come into balance, creating a smoother drinking experience. Fuller, firmer styles generally benefit from the longer end of this range, while softer styles can be enjoyable sooner.
Overall rating: 5.0 / 5 from 3 reviews.
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Turn out to be a great warm weather merlot
"Personal opinion: Of all the wine kits I've made, the Eclipse Stag's Leap Merlot is best. But - it's a pretty full bodied red wine, which is great in cool weather. But I don't really want full bodied reds in summer. On really hot nights, let's have a light pinot grigio or French sauv blanc. Proseco? Portugese white wine? Sure! Anyhow, it happened to be 98 degrees on bottling day for the California Merlot. And this particular merlot turns out to be exactly what I'd like to drink on that kind of day. I'd describe it as somewhere between light and medium body. It would be ideal with bbq ribs, etc. This kit was started 05 March 2016 and bottled 22 July 2017. It might improve with a little more age but I think it's excellent already. There is also a Selection Pinot Noir available for comparison. Let's pour that one down the sink and drink this merlot, instead."
California Merlot
"Made this kit and let it age for about 4 months. It is so incredibly smooth. Very very good wine. Ordering another kit asap!! Gonna stock up on this beauty"
