Grand Superior Red Wines

Barolo Style

Their Barolo style wine is made from 100% Nebbiolo grapes, just like the great Barolo’s of Piedmont. It will produce a fruity, full bodied wine, rich in soft tannins, with flavours of rose petals and violets and a touch of truffle and tar.

Cabernet/Merlot

This very popular blend is made from 60% Cabernet Sauvignon and 40% Merlot. The fruitier Merlot with its smoother velvety tannins is the perfect complement to the harsher Cabernet. The result is a deep crimson mauve coloured wine with superb nose, filled with the aroma of violets, mulberries and cedar with spicy overtones. The oak chips they have included in this wine kit will work together with the carefully selected Cabernet/Merlot yeast strain to bring out a young but well rounded wine that will improve even further with bottle ageing.

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Cabernet Sauvignon

Cabernet Sauvignon differs from other vines mainly because of its phenolics which enable it to produce more deeply coloured wines. The Cabernet Sauvignon grape can be distinguished by its small size, the high ratio of pip to pulp and the thickness of the skins, which are blue instead of red or purple. The Cabernet Sauvignon grape makes a full bodied, complex wine, high in tannin and with a deep ruby colour, capable of long ageing. With subtle tones of blackcurrant as well as tobacco and chocolate developing slowly with ageing, this is truly one of the great reds. The yeast strain they have chosen for this wine-kit is especially good at handling the high tannins and delivering a quality wine which can be drunk immediately although it will improve even further during the first 6-12 months of bottle ageing. They have also included a special type of oak chips which will give your wine the “aged” dimension which can normally only be achieved through long ageing in oak barrels.

Merlot

Worldwide, this is the grape and red wine of the moment. Its fragrant perfumes and softer structure make it “accessible” sooner than Cabernet. In France, this rich variety is often critical in the clarets of Bordeaux. The Grand Superior Merlot wine is purple and full-bodied with flavours of blackberries, plums and violets. It is less tannic and earlier maturing than our Cabernet Sauvignon. For this wine kit we have chosen a special yeast strain which promotes the softer character of the Merlot grape and the oak chips will introduce tannins and flavours similar to a barrel aged Merlot.

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Pinot Noir

This classic red grape produces a complex full bodied red wine, ruby brick red with a light purple hue. The Grand Superior Pinot Noir wine has a velvety flavour with hints of fresh plum and cherries. The carefully selected yeast strain together with the included oak chips brings out the spicy oak flavour and the smooth fine grain tannins typical of a great Pinot Noir.

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