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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...

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...

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...

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...

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?