Well it's been a long time coming but finally it's happened. Way back in the summer I bought this Beaverdale kit. It's meant to be the nearest thing you can get to a Chateau Neuf Du Pape and many home-brewers rate it highly. I tried my first ever kit wine based on other home-brewers recommendations. That kit was a Beaverdale Shiraz and it did not disappoint. Beaverdale are mid price-range kits, so it's gonna cost you a couple of pounds (sterling) per bottle, but if you follow the instructions then you'll get something worth 3, 4 or more times that price. How long you wait is up to you but from 6 months old they are good!
So here's a piccie of the box it comes in and everything in the kit.
The demi-john and airlock are not included with the kit. And here's a close up of the various sachets.
2 for clearing agents (clear sachets), oak chips, yeast and stabilisers. Those and the grape juice is all you need, no added sugar, just water.
Follow the instructions and you're laughing cos within minutes you'll have something like this
whoaaa, hold on, now that frothy head isn't a super bionic instantly activating yeast getting going. That came about from giving it all a good shake to mix the grape concentrate with the water. If you don't then you'll get poor mixing meaning layers of concentrate and diluted juice in the demi-john. This will make for a problematic ferment. If you look closely at the picture you'll see the oak chips on the head. It all got a good mix again when the yeast went in.
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