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Good questions... corks we're supplied by the u-vin which brewed the kit for us it so I'd only be able to measure one (which I will do tonight). Installed with a pneumatic corking machine 1.8 years ago. Stored on their side in a basement (along with about 120 other bottles ranging from just...

We've been drinking kit wine for over 10 years now and have never had a bad bottle. We opened a Zinfandel on the weekend, almost 2 years old, and the cork to my admittedly lousy nose had a vinegar note. The wine didn't taste "bad" but we cracked open a second bottle: same thing. We then opened a...

Ok so it probably was, at best, a $100 kit which isnt exactly top shelf, but not watered down table wine either. How old was it when you last cracked a bottle? Give it time and it will probably be lovely. We had a mid tier 16L Pinot Grigio made for us last fall. At 3 months it was almost...

The question for me is : what did you pay for the service vs. the kit? If, hypothetically, they charged you $80 for the kit and $70 service fee, then the wine may well have been on the lower end of the spectrum. A $100/$50 split is probably more likely (typical out here in Atlantic Canada...

We've been having kit wine made for us for about a decade now. Frankly, and in all sincerity, we cannot stomach typical commercial wine anymore (in both taste AND cost). We generally stick to Premium kits, such as Vinco Showcase (formerly known as Sommelier Reserve), Passport, and most recently...

Are they roughly on par with each other in terms of quality? I've got last year's Passport Nero D'Avola (becoming fantastic at the one year mark) but this years LE17 Negroamaro looks interesting...

Thanks everyone for all for the input. I suspected their assertion might be a little off since I've been getting kits with skins/raisins (whatever) made for years and no one ever mentioned anything like this before. Jim, I hear what you're saying about second guessing them, but honestly I think...

This was at a Vintner's Cellar, referring to what they called their Italy "Varietal Juice" Chianti kit. They actually referred to the grape (skin?) pack as "raisins which swell up into grapes". :) In any event is "squeezing" the pack at the end of the primary phase customary?

I was talking to a local U-Vin about them making a Chianti kit for me, one which comes with a grape pack, and they pointed out that they squeeze the grape sack at the end of primary (because otherwise, they found, you loose a bottle+ worth of wine not to mention all the nice tannins), but that...

We made one in Q1. Its only now coming into its own. Quite nice really.

How many bottles can you fit in each unit?

There is an alcove under our stairs which would make an ideal location. Its as cool a spot as we have in the house (under 60 in winter, somewhat higher in summer). Only concern is there is a TV room adjacent to it which in the winter gets used a couple times on the weekends and is heated for...

What did you use to do the half-cuts in the X pieces? (I too am limited in the tools at my disposal :) )

No I hadnt. Wow! Gorgeous. So are they freestanding then? How did you do the Xs? Interlock or some sort of rabbet joint?

Good looking units. Will they be freestanding?

Has anyone every weighed 30 full bottles of wine? Just trying to design some sort of storage system and am wondering what the actual weight we are dealing with is...

On sale at Canadian Tire this week: http://www.canadiantire.ca/browse/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=845524441891767&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=1408474396672077&bmUID=1363002189124 I've never seen one built up. Especially on the the larger one (72b), are the as sturdy as they claim?

I'm very keen to make something along these lines. It would be labor intensive, but I can deal with that. I wonder how stable this type of rack is though. I see them everywhere but intuitively I would think that a gentle push on the side would send the whole thing collapsing sideways unless...