I made a few of these kits 18 months ago (first time, I have tried this kit). I bottled some at 1 year, and, it was tried by many folks at a family event. This kit was a favourite pick among other wines that I brought for tasting. It was a ripe jammy wine with raspberry fruit flavours.
I still have a carboy that I haven't bottled yet.
This isn't personally going to be one of my favourite kits, I would prefer a style that was not so "ripe, fruity, jammy", but everybody else seemed to love it.
Brian55; I am wondering if you got a kit from a substandard batch? I posted recently about some Cellarcraft GSM kits that were not the same as ones that I had previously made. This kind of thing does not seem to happen very often, but, over the years, it has happened.