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Cantina Cabernet Sauvignon 28 Bottle Wine Kit
✓ No sugar needed – just add water
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This kit needs no added sugar. Sanitise your fermenter, equipment and bottles first with ChemSan no-rinse sanitiser.
The Cantina Cabernet Sauvignon 28 Bottle Wine Kit makes a medium ruby red, full-bodied red from Cabernet Sauvignon style grapes, in just five days. It's for red wine drinkers who want a big, tannic style without waiting months for it to soften.
New to home brewing? Get this kit as a complete starter kit.
Add a 25 litre fermenter with tap, bottling wand, airlock, hydrometer and sanitiser and it becomes our Cantina Wine Making Starter Kit – all you need to add is bottles. Includes a step-by-step guide.
Get the starter kit – £63.99Cabernet Sauvignon is normally stored in bottle for months while its tannins mellow. Hambleton Bard say the fast Cantina fermentation softens those tannins, so you can serve this wine within a week of starting the kit.
What's in the box
- Italian grape juice concentrate - no sugar needed
- Sachet 1: wine yeast and nutrient
- Sachet 2: stabiliser
- Sachets 3 and 4: two-part finings to clear the wine
Specs
- About 4 days fermenting plus 1 day stabilising and clearing
- Needs a 25-33 litre fermenter with an airlock, and a syphon
How to make it
- Empty the juice into a clean fermenter and top up with water at 20-30°C to 21 litres.
- Add sachet 1, fit the airlock and ferment for about 4 days.
- Once the hydrometer reads 1000 or below, rack off, add the stabiliser, de-gas, then add both finings.
- Rack off the clear wine the next day and bottle.
Bottle into 75cl wine bottles with quality corks. See the full Cantina 28 Bottle Wine Range.