About Us
The Home Vintner carries a wide selection of premium wine and beer kits, guaranteed to please the most discriminating connoisseur. We offer award winning kits by Winexpert produced from varietal wine juices of superior vineyards around the world.
We conduct Winemaking Classes for our customers and our staff of Certified Winemakers provide ongoing technical advice and assistance to ensure a positive and pleasurable experience in hand-crafting your own fine wines.
Our complete Starter Kit, at a very attractive price for new winemakers, includes the finest equipment as well as a quality Wine Kit and our 3-Hour Instructional Class in the art of wine and beer making.
Our customers have won 448 Winemaking Awards at the prestigious Annual Provincial and National wine judging events, which we believe attests to the quality of Winexpert kits as well as The Home Vintner’s continuing technical support.
You can hand-craft fine wines in your own home at a fraction of the cost of commercially produced wines and with much less chemical content.
Visit any one of our stores and discuss home winemaking with our staff and you too can become an Award Winning Winemaker.
100% PRODUCT GUARANTEE
The Home Vintner has had a 100% guarantee on all our wine and beer kits since 1993. Customer satisfaction is very important to us at all our locations. In order to honour this guarantee, it is absolutely essential that you use our corks, as there are many sub-standard corks on the market. Please also remember to peel off the code sticker on the top of the box, and keep it with your records. These codes are full of important information for both the retailer and the consumer.
WINE EXPERT QUALITY - HOW AB0UT ORGANIC WINE?
Grapes are a very long-term crop (no fruit for four years, and then a 20+ producing life for vines) growers who don't promote soil health are rapidly without a livelihood. No soil = no vines.
There isn't a huge call for synthetic fertilizers or pesticides on grapes. The only really common thing that grapes get sprayed with is Bordeaux mixture, a blend of lime and sulphate that prevents mould. This compound is allowed for use on organic grapes, as it's not derived from petrochemical products, and is pretty benign.
The most important factor to consider, you can't make wine if you don't handle the grapes with plenty of integrity. Poor handling causes burst grapes, subsequently oxidizing the juice.
