Personally, I've made many more Winexpert kits than others mostly that is the brand my local supplier sells. I have also made and was pleased with a Herron Bay ice wine and a RJ Spagnols Pinot Chardonnay.
I suggest you invest in a wine making equipment kit and an extra 3 gallon carboy...
I made this kit in 2005 and continue to enjoy the wine. In my case, I prefer a dry wine and my wife likes hers sweeter so I bottled 1/2 dry and the other half sweet.
I suggest you rack 1/2 to your primary fermenter for sweetening. If you get it too sweet you have the reserved wine you can...
My curiosity gets the best of me so I usually take a taste at the point of transferring the wine to the secondary and when fermentation is complete (but before adding the stabilizer and fining). By the way, I made a Winexpert valpollicella in 2005 and loved it and still have a couple bottles left!
I've used Vintner's Harvest blueberry, blackberry, and am currently making a batch of peach. For the blackberry I used 1 can and made a 5 gal. batch. I wanted a full-bodied wine but the she shop where I bought my supplies had only 1 can blackberry juice. They suggested I add a package of...