So I picked up a MM Renaissance Rosso D'Avola (Nero D' Avola) a few weeks ago and am thinking about starting it soon.
This is a wonderful quite often overlooked Italian (Sicily) grape that is really quite good.
Mosti adds raisins for quite a few of their Italian wine kits (Amarone, Chianti, Valpolicella) but for some reason not this one.
I am thinking about added 1lb Red Flame raisins to this kit to give it some more total dissolved solids and hopefully a little extra oomph.
This kit also is listed as having an Oak Intensity of 2 yet it only came with 1oz of Oak chips. My MM Renaissance Valpolicella is listed as having an Oak Intensity of 1 and it came with 3oz Oak chips so sorta confused on that aspect and I am thinking I should add 2 more ounces of French med toast oak chips for a total of 3oz like what came with the Valpolicella.
Anybody see any show stoppers with these 2 modifications from the instructions?
This is a wonderful quite often overlooked Italian (Sicily) grape that is really quite good.
Mosti adds raisins for quite a few of their Italian wine kits (Amarone, Chianti, Valpolicella) but for some reason not this one.
I am thinking about added 1lb Red Flame raisins to this kit to give it some more total dissolved solids and hopefully a little extra oomph.
This kit also is listed as having an Oak Intensity of 2 yet it only came with 1oz of Oak chips. My MM Renaissance Valpolicella is listed as having an Oak Intensity of 1 and it came with 3oz Oak chips so sorta confused on that aspect and I am thinking I should add 2 more ounces of French med toast oak chips for a total of 3oz like what came with the Valpolicella.
Anybody see any show stoppers with these 2 modifications from the instructions?