Old Vine Zinfandel w/ Skins - 6 Gallon Wine Kit - Master Vintner® Sommelier Select® with glass

Old Vine Zinfandel w/ Skins - 6 Gallon Wine Kit - Master Vintner Sommelier Select

Old Vine Zinfandel w/ Skins - 6 Gallon Wine Kit - Master Vintner® Sommelier Select®

$199.99

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Price Per BOTTLE: $6.66

Product details

When vines get past their fourth decade, they produce fewer grapes, but much more intense fruit, giving rich, dense wine* with great character and ageing potential.

Medium-full bodied with firm acidity, this Old Vine Zin shows a combination of red and black fruits--raspberry, blackberry, fig, plum and raisin, along with an intriguing black pepper spiciness on the rich, rolling finish. An excellent match with dark chocolate (try it!), it's also a great barbecue wine (especially chicken), or with lamb, pulled pork or grilled burgers.

Yields 6 gallons

*This recipe kit uses a RealGrape pack to boost flavor and body. Because the grape skins are not dried, they take up more space in your fermentor. This recipe requires the larger 7.9 gallon wine fermentor.

Additional information

SKU	42593
Wine Color	Red
Wine Style	Zinfandel
Wine Region	North America
Includes Grape Skins	Yes
Yield	6 Gallons

Old Vine Zin (with skins)

I have made this kit 5 times in the past. I cannot figure out what was different with this one. Every other one has been fantastic. For some reason the finished wine from this kit has an odd taste to it. I used only half of the oak chips that came with the kit. Despite that, the odd taste is either too much oak or the juice was spoiled in some way. It is drinkable but was a disappointment to me. I have back tracked all of my steps and equipment and cleaning procedures and can't find anything I did differently.

Old Vine Zin

Kit worked well in all respects.
Just bottled wine, and tasted, a few days ago. Wine is good this young, with a lot of potential after some aging. I think it will be great wine, just need some time to assess it.
The kit contents, quality and use gets 5 stars.
The wine? Only 4 stars at this point, just because you are asking me too soon. Anticipate 5 stars after maturing a bit.
G

Great Kit

Kit makes a great Red Zin, i Let mine age at least a year before drinking

8 Gallon Pail Not Big Enough

This is my second Master Vintner Sommelier Select kit with Skins. Because the bag of Skins is quite large, there was not enough room in my 8 gallon pail for fermentation. I purchased a 10 gallon pail for this one and had no problems.

Old Vine Zinfandel w/ Skins is just OK

So far I am somewhat disappointed in the product. Product would not clear so I racked it after 4 weeks and added Super Klear. It is now clearing. Not sure I would order this kit again.

Tasted it after racking and I am hoping that aging for a year will help it.

I have been making wine from kits and from scratch for over ten years and have not had a kit not clear before.

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