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Selection Limited Edition Washington Meritage and South African Sauvignon Blanc Semillon are now available. We would like to remind everyone who pre-ordered the January Limited Editions, that they are now available from your local Winexpert Retailer. This year, Food Network Canada Host, Anthony Sedlak created 5 amazing recipes to match up with our Limited Edition wines. Check out the Limited Edition web page to get the recipes. POSTED January 13th, 2012 | 0 COMMENTS 
We are proud to announce that 7 of our wine kits were named the top wine kit in their varietal category in the December issue of WineMaker Magazines Top 100 Wine Kits. These 7 kits also won Gold Medals at the 2011 WineMaker International Amateur Wine Competition including Best in Show Kit Concentrate for our Estate Series Lodi Ranch 11 Cabernet Sauvignon. POSTED December 23rd, 2011 | 0 COMMENTS | POST A COMMENT New ProductsDOMAINE des BRUMES AVAILABLE NOW 
Step by step (click here) Ron makes our new Selection Original - Brouilly, the largest Cru in Beaujolais, is a wine noted for its aromas of blueberries, cherries, raspberries, strawberries currants and floral notes. Our brouilly is called Domaine des Brumes, a refreshing, easy drinking red revealing a slender texture, smooth tannins and a medium finish. The Gamay grape is light and fruity in the same palette as a Beaujolais wine. POSTED November 2nd, 2011 | 0 COMMENTS 4 NEW SELECTION INTERNATIONAL WITH CRUSHED GRAPE SKINS _200x200.jpg)
Now available - new product release - 4 Selection International kits made with Crushed Grape Skins. Selection International with Grapeskins is one of the most exciting and timely kits Winexpert has produced, allowing the winemaker to choose a country of origin kit with excellent varietal character, bold flavours and aromas and full-bodied tannins, all in a wine that drinks well young and rewards patience. You'll recognize these wines from previous Limited Edition releases. POSTED November 1st, 2011 | 0 COMMENTS | POST A COMMENT WORLD VINEYARD SEASONAL RELEASE 
Now available - introducing our new Australian Shiraz / Mourvedre and German Traminer / Riesling. These two superb varieties will only be available while quantities last. POSTED November 1st, 2011 | 0 COMMENTS | POST A COMMENT 
Island Mist is a delicious alternative to everyday wines and wine coolers. Combining the crisp freshness of distinctive varietal wines with full fruit flavours, this unique winemaking kit makes a fun, refreshing wine-based beverage to enjoy any time. Combining the mouth watering juiciness of North American cranberry with the plum, blackcurrant and sweet cherry of Argentinean Malbec makes a Mist that's luscious, lush and perfectly balanced for sweetness with a "drink-me-now" quality. POSTED October 30th, 2011 | 0 COMMENTS | POST A COMMENT Ask The VintnerBUYER BEWARE OF BLOWOUT SALES! 
A wine or beer kit is a food product and should be treated as such. Would you be comfortable eating a can of peaches that was a couple of years old? 
Simply the best, Winexpert. The judges agree! Winexpert consistently has gold medal winning results year after year. Other kits do not compare to our nose. I don't have time to make wine 
I hear it almost every day, "I just don't have time to make more wine". So here we go with how long it actually takes to make a wine kit from start to finish: The Australian Petit Verdot was first offered as a Limited Edition in 2006. In our 20th year celebration 5 wines were brought back, and yes the Petit Verdot was one of the favorites and reintroduced in 2009. If it is possible to drink pure velvet this is it! I was so excited when Winexpert introduced this wine kit in its new grapeskin lineup. I will walk you daily through the entire process of making this wine. Yes, this is one of my favorites!! To add to the excitement I am going to use a liquid yeast - I have chosen the Bordeaux 4267. 
Corks! Corks! Corks! If I've said it once, I've said it a million times - don't skimp on your corks!!! We recently had a customer bring in a bottle of our Estate Stag's Leap Merlot. He had purchased one of our best kits but when he corked it he bought poor quality corks at another store.The entire 28 bottles had gone bad. We guarantee all beer and wine kits 100% if Here's a tip on getting the top of your carboy clean 
After bottling, it is important to clean your carboy before things left behind start to harden. I rinse with hot water and use carboy brushes to keep everything clean. If there are stubborn stains and scale in the top of my carboy I add about 1 inch of cleaner / sanitizer to the carboy. The Home Vintner sells holeless bungs which I put in the top of the carboy and turn it upside down in 
Bad, bad advice!! The Home Vintner prides itself on having the most knowledgeable staff in the industry. Our wine guild has won over 500 provincial, national and international awards, we have 15 staff certified through the winemaking excellence program (that's more than any other store in North America). Over 9,000 people have completed our wine and beer making How to correctly bottle beer and then how to pour a homecrafted beer 
Once you have reached the correct SG and there is no further surface bubbles, to further clear the beer, then I carefully rack the beer off the sediment into aother sanitized carboy. At 3 days I then rack back into my sanitized primary to add the dextrose provided with the beer kit. Often during the fermentation process a surface scum appears, this is a floating yeast bed. Gently rock the carboy back and forth and the bed breaks into little pieces. If it appears the next day continue disturbing it by rocking the carboy each day. This weekend on the 3rd day there was a significant surface scum. I carefully inserted my syphon rod leaving just a small hole in the surface. Using a syphon clamp I secured the rod to the rim of the carboy. As the beer was syphoned out the scum stuck to the sides of the carboy and to the outside of the sypon rod. |
