Merlot Wine Kit - Master Vintner® Weekday Wine®

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Always great wine from Master Vintner.

Wonderful Merlot for the money!

I am surprisingly happy with this Merlot after it has aged a few months.. Was a bit watered down at first taste as kit contained half the amount of juice of the more expensive Kit. Its only 10% ABV but that is okay for me..

Merlot wine kit, Weekday wine

The wine kit was purchased to make a desert style wine (more like a ruby port) and not as intended by the directions. My primary fermenter was filled to only 4 gallons. SG was 1.12. I let it ferment to 1.01 and added 3 cups of sugar. Once my SG was back to 1.01 I transferred it to my secondary fermenter. At five weeks in the secondary fermenter I added a clarifying agent, sulfate and a chocolate sweetener flavoring. Tasting before adding the sweetener and bottling was a very smooth semi-sweet Merlot and only slightly dry wine. (Very good in my humble opinion unless you like extra dry) With that said my goal was a chocolate flavored dessert wine which it turned out unbelievably good. I bottled at about eight weeks